• The Deep Mind  ☥
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The Deep Mind

Sincere and technically OK suits the House you are in

Everybody's body is different, and everything around you is part of your own potential, also called the expanded awareness. Take on all, says Dogen.

To take on all, as Dogen says, let your meditative silence expand until it embraces the personal too and you get nearer to the Home.

At any rate, try to deepen your diving until you find yourself focused and relaxed.

Call to the Great House - Deep Mind - with a laughing heart, mildly, ask for guidance.

The great majority, if they start out on the path with enthusiasm, gradually become discouraged. Expect something like that.

A wrap can help to maintain an even body temperature, and calmness is your eternal, true nature.

Be silent and relaxed. When your mind withdraws deeply, into Deep Mind, centred in bliss, you are a spirit.

Some are afraid to go breathless in diving inside themselves. So what?

Do not fill all your diving time with technique. Also, it is good to simply sit and enjoy the stillness.

Hold the chin quite parallel to the ground.

The more deeply you concentrate at the eyebrow area in the fit way, the more your breathing becomes calm.

To dive a short time with depth is better than to dive for long hours without it. You are trying too hard when you are expending too much will power and in consequence becomes nervous. When you get calm inside, your breathing becomes calm. Then listen for the House's quite silent responses.

Positive practices enter stillness, evolving into a Divine Calm at times too

Allow for the fact that it takes time to go from motion to stillness - maybe two minutes. It depends on the techniques you use. Many yogis recommend sitting on a wool rug, blanket, or piece of silk in order to contemplate better; they say it has to do with benefitting from certain subtle currents.

It is better to dive 5-15 minutes with focus, and then increase your time as you can.

Trying to feel Deep Mind Itself, dwell on positive practices.

There is no reason to be very hasty or impatient in the Eternal Now.

Direct inner perception should result when your heart is pure, and from this all-round approach: You repeat a suitable medley sound (mantra) to reap that mantra. By and by the methodology may exclude thoughts from occupying the mind and next it carries you (or some) into inner stillness.

Practice a good diving method for at least a quarter, and in time it becomes quite easy. ◊

In listenening attentively lies excellent training to some.

Go for nothing in particular at each meditation session - just practice to you ability. Then Divine Calm can come, and you can practice regularly.

Sit calmly for a long time after doing the techniques, and intuitive awareness may develop. The more deeply you enjoy the heart thus, the more intuition can develop in time.

Try to see what the aim is: waking to meadows and singing birds

Mind-diving techniques like Hong Saw have been practiced by students of yoga for thousands of years.

Close your eyes and try to see - and train yourself to visualize more and more clearly.

The silent laughter in the House is very important, the sincerity or wholeheartedness of the person too.

When you meditate, one method tells you to fix your gaze upwards, for example at a point about an arm's length away and 10-20 cm higher than the top of your head and keep your eyes closed or half-closed while at it. A certain heat sensation may next generate between the eyebrows with the training. In some forms of Zen it may be called the "doubt-sensation" too.

Speak well. ◊

Go for fresh air if possible.

Summary

1. Enjoy the stillness had from calm breathing and yoga meditation.
2. Use positive practices for your calm training.
3. Visualise as is pleasant, do some Zen (dhyana, deep meditation)) if it can be done wholeheartedly. Having a heart is the main thing too.

Enjoy the stillness your training leads to, and keep things pleasant to remain wholehearted too.

Howitzers

Vicarious bigwigs and their trade

Too conform men and women appear to become puppies on strings, and some seek to mask it by vain and indiscreet parades and much boasting and bragging. Some start to project the wish to brag on behalf of themselves, or be great, on to top-dogs among men - they even admire the clergy. There is no reason for that. It suggests that many followers of persons that are looked up to, want to taste a bit of their ascribed greatness too, by being associated with them some way or other. At least there is that risk of "vicarious bigwigness" among guru followers if things go awry. Jesus wasn't much for hailing bigwigs - who crucified him in turn.

Much can be ruined within men and women by their admiring bigwigs too long, too much and too hard. Most conform people do as they are told, anyway, even in such sensitive areas as causing pain to others, experiments repeatedly show.

Some "big ones" use others like cattle who seem to get stuck in half-symbioses or vicarious aggrandizements of the plotting, masked lords over them. Birds of a feather flock together. Accept there is moral and moral - much is higher than business moral.

A solid education and business should work well

It could be fit to go for sound, good and decent conformity, though. There is often nothing better to go for, aside from meditating deeply in one's private quarters, and with an acceptable group - it is one that is beneficial.

If reading is a help, give priority to excellent literature and self-help manuals, and try to get an education too. A safety lesson is: Stay with the original design you are put inside, if it can be made serviceable and excellent for a family or clan. Yet there is more than one way to Rome. Do not try to help everybody first, ignoring yourself and close loved ones. Beware and study domesticated and placated animals so as not to behave like them.

Stunted and honoured, what about that?

An admired or honoured animal has a good chance to survive if it does not get stunted by such things, not unlike some domesticated animals.

Within the scientific community, to scrutinise the validity or potentiality of some interesting sayings, practices and sources, is kept in high esteem. But just faith is not thought highly of.

Stunting for luxury - is that it?

Many get stunted into graveness and grimness.

Alienated ones seldom give much and substantial comfort.

Jesus was treated quite as a skunk in his community, and maybe even worse.

We have to be much more guarded when we talk, for our own good, perhaps also among friends.

Hence, where the horse is called an avatar, horses could find themselves well protected.

Proficient, independent thinking is not much favoured within many a sect or cult.

Bottom line

1. To be honoured can be fine, but not sickly honoured.

2. The demagogy-honoured animal often has a better chance to survive, judged from Indian conditions at least.

3. Solid, independent thinking is a sign of being fit for science. Babaji sent the guru Yogananda to help such persons, says Yogananda in his autobiography. Maybe you should not trust it a lot.