a guideline for meditation

[Guest guest]

I just came across the following guideline for meditation

that I wrote for a friend several years ago. There is nothing

" right " or " correct " about the following. And there are other

ways of meditating. But what follows is more or less what I

do when something is " up " for me. In the text I speaking

of " going into " . Perhaps if I were to write this today I would

say, " melt into, " or " allow yourself to dissolve into " . The

words are not important. The key is that whatever

" material " comes up, to go *into* into, not away from it.

When the observer and the observed become one

transformation happens.

 

Bill

 

 

Be in a quiet and meditative place.

After completely settling and becoming tranquil,

go deeply within. Meditate on:

 

What is the Essence of the Essence?

 

Meditate this way in an energy sense. The concept of

" essence " is irrelevant here. It is about energy, about

conscious, direct experience.

 

When thoughts come up notice them but only casually.

When a thought comes up let it be like a Rainbow Bread

wrapper going by you on the river bank. It comes into

view. It goes out of view.

 

Whatever comes up as energy, go into it. Go into it

as energy per se. Go into the essence of the energy.

Go in in in this way until settling into a deep inner

state where there is no this, no that, no other, no whether,

no why. Absorb deeply into this and let it become

established. As it becomes settled and established

you will come out of the trance, wake up, and feel

refreshed.

 

After doing this practice you will find that you are

less perturbed by externalities. On repetition you

will find a fundamental imperturbability becoming

established in you. " Other people's stuff " will become

like the Rainbow Bread wrapper. They float into view,

they float out of view. You remain unaffected.

 

Actually, a core matter in this remains to be mentioned.

Regarding the practice described above, when going

deeply into the energy of " whatever comes up " , that

energy, that deep content may sometimes be very

profound and affective. The practice described is not

meant to be a by-passing of such deep material. The

suggestion is to truly, deeply experience this material

when it comes up, but by going into the " essence of the

energy " of it. Both those qualifications are important:

the essence of, and the energy of. In other words, go

deeper than thought, and go to the core. When some

really strong material comes up it may take a lot of

time and energy to go deeply into it, and in one session

one may not get to the deeply established and settled

state described. This is in no way a concern. This

simply means that one is going through some difficult

material that needs healing. The method described is

very direct, powerful and effective for such healing.