Guest guest Posted November 12, 2001 Report Share Posted November 12, 2001 Every ghost that has been suppressed becomes a potential seed for insanity. This must be eliminated. As man becomes more civilized, he becomes potentially more mad. One who is uncivilized is potentially less mad because he still understands the language of the body, he still cooperates with it. His body is not suppressed; his body is the flowering of his being.<br>This second step must be done totally. You must not be outside the body; you must be in it. When you are doing something, do it completely; be the doing, not the doer. That is what is meant by totality: be the doing, become the act; don't be an actor. An actor is always outside his acting, he is never in it. When I love you I am in it, but when I act lovingly I am outside the act.<br>In the second step so many things are possible- something different will happen to each individual. One person will begin to dance, another person will begin to cry. One will become naked, another will begin to jump and yet another will begin to laugh. Anything is possible. Move from within, move totally, and then you can proceed to the third stage.<br>The third stage is reached as a result of an inherent sequence. In the first stage, the body electricity, or you can call it kundalini, is awakened. It begins to revolve and move. Only then can the body be in a total letgo, not before. Only when the inner movement has begun are outer movements possible.<br>When the catharsis of the second stage is brought to a peak, to a climax, the third ten-minute stage begins. Begin to repeat vigorously the Sufi mantra: Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! The energy that has been awakened through breathing and expressed through catharsis now begins to move inward and upward; the mantra rechannels the energy. Before it was moving downward and outward; now it begins to move inward and upward.<br>Go on hammering the sound within- Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Until the whole begin becomes nothing but the sound. You must exhaust yourself completely; only then does the fourth stage, the meditation, happen.<br>The fourth stage is nothing- only silence and waiting. If you have moved into the first three stages totally, completely, holding nothing back, then in the fourth stage you will automatically fall into a deep relaxation. The body is exhausted; all suppressions have been thrown out, all thoughts have been thrown out. Now relaxation comes spontaneously- you need not do anything to make it happen. This is the beginning of meditation.<br>The situation has been created: you are not there. Now meditation can happen. You are open, waiting, receptive. And the happening happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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