MEDITATION

MEDITATION TECHNIQUES

There is no one or right wrong technique for meditation.  Below several possible techniques are listed.  Experiment with trial and error.  There are 1,008 paths to nirvana and you only require one. Egyptians used light meditation, Tibetans and hundreds of other cultures have found ways of meditation that work for them.  They all lead to the same place, but we are each our own person, so we must find the technique that works for us.

• Imagine a tree nearby a lake in the Tibetan mountains where the Buddha became enlightened.  Imagine one are the Buddha and light is all around one.  Imagine all one’s metros, dead and alive, are there with one.    Do not seek bliss but just feel it.  Become the nexus of the tress, bliss, and the link between them.  Imagine the universe is already perfect. 

• Visualize a wheel of light. Light changes all to love.  Focus on clear light, and prana will enter the central channel. Clear light is key.  Let light flow through you but never from you. See yourself as the channel of healing light. Release desires and fear into the light. Let it go.

• Pick one of the seven main chakras outlined in the chakras section.  Let the entire body relay, as if it’s floating on a cloud and picture the chakra in it’s shape and color.  The chakra is spinning.  Nadi have the vibrations within the self. We can come to understand the vibrations of each chakra and how we are changing if we meditate on each chakra. When starting to meditate focus on one chakra per day. Vrittis come up and are whirlpools of energy. It’s important not to become attached to these whirlpools. Follow them to their source or dismiss them but don’t let them suck one in.

• Focus on the space between the eyebrows and meditate on a rainbow.  Draw the energy up from the base of the spine, not downwards.  Potentially visualize, fire, earth, air water, and inner soul.  Not the body but the soul.  Be one with the all the elements.  We are all already the divine truth. Concentrate and focus on the breath.  Do not breath in Samadhi because the energy comes from the ajna chakra.  Curl the tip of one’s tongue upwards so it touches the front of one’s mouth, thus connecting the ren and du energy channels. One should feel warm.

• Mediate on someone for who you have unconditional love.  Imagine them with you right now. Just be with them in whatever form feels most comfortable.  Don’t judge, just be.  

• Visualize freedom and compassion.  Feel the Buda and let Buddha become Tara, love to love. 

• Inhale and take the suffering of someone else into your heart of light.  Let your heart of light destroy the suffering.  Just as a doctor removes a tumor, you are removing another’s suffering and evaporating it with your sacred light.  Your breath has deep power.  Feel gratitude for having the opportunity to participate in another’s’ suffering and help to destroy it.  Do not seek to gain from this, just do.  Imagine this person’s desires, dreams, and hopes and send them what they desire to replace the spot where the suffering used to exist. This type of meditation is called Lojong or Tonglen and it’s an ancient Tibetan technique.  Try it with a friend who you know is suffering.  Try it another day with someone you don’t know personally such as a homeless person or a refugee.  Notice the difference, don’t judge, just notice. All beings want happiness and to avoid suffering.  We are each just one of billions of living human beings. They are more important than I am. Inhale: Feel the love. Exhale it to them. Inhale pain and weakness and let it dissolve into one’s heart.  Some find it helpful to think that Gain and victory go to others, death comes to me.

• Imagine someone you envy or are even jealous of.  Recognize their shared humanity.  Imagine them as a child being born from their mother.  Imagine them on their death bed taking their last breath.  Understand that we are all human. Now imagine how happy they must be for what they have.  Feel joy with them and send them your well wishes for their joy.  Mudita is a practice to rejoice in others’ joy. 

• Think of someone one love and imagine their desire to be happy.  Give them

• Surender.  Live in the now.  Desire exists in time, but light just exists. Light is.  Where are you?  Here.  What time is it?  Now.  Be here now, and you will discover the light.  you will die but there will be essence.  Return to this essence. This is it.  It is all here right now.  Always living in the future or the past costs too much. Later never exists.  Just be here now.  Our practice does not return us to the same place as we started because our practice has changed us.

• Breathe in light (especially in the morning). You are perfect, whole, and complete. Feel the light expand within one.  Allow the light to dissolve fear, anger, or other emotions you wish to let go.  You are loved.  Notice darkness and release it into the light.

• Release goals and desires into the light.  Watch what happens to them as they each one at a time go into the light.  Trust what happens.

• Take two or three deep clearing breaths. Visualize clouds with bright colors coming from each chakra.  Visualizations including bright white light through the head, different globes with equal sizes at each chakra, vacuum sucks the negative energy into heavy clouds which purify. Low, medium, and high. 

• Relax in the land of circle made of light.  Follow the circles, not the lines nor the angles.   Follow the circles to the light and avoid the darkness.  We are all light, and to it we return.  Light is thy soul and travels freely.  Light and dark always fight. Do not surrender to the brothers of darkness. Light comes from striving. If heart is darkened send brain wave from head to toe. Place a circle around oneself and raise hands to the sun to get light.   Let light flow in thy soul.  Move in curves, not angles. Serpent is dangerous. Light is thy ultimate end.  Aim to transmute darkness to light, but always following light.

• Imagine a crystal.  Imagine a beam of light traveling from this crystal’s apex sending a ray into space time. 

• Move into your source of pain.  Surrender to the pain.  Let it take you over for just this moment.   Let it awaken you. Let it soften you.  Be generous with your joys, give away what you want most.  Acceptance is not passive.  It is powerful. 

• Place a sacred item on your solar plexus and send it to someone else.  People have matched drawings 40 miles away this way.  Place your undivided attention and concentration on the object.  Don’t focus on the thinking.  Just concentrate and then relax.  Transmit shapes and sizes or an essence of the object—transmit whatever comes to you.  The book Mental Radio by Upton Sinclair outlines this technique in more detail.  Sinclair believes telepathy is real.  I’m not sure I fully understand it, but I must say it’s interesting that Einstein urged publication of the document after reviewing it.