In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know – silly things.
Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.
The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it’s perfect meditation. It’s really that simple.
There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.
In the second stage we stop thought for limited periods of time.
The third stage is no thought.
The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That’s the bottom line in meditative practice.
The second stage of meditation begins when you can successfully stop thought for long periods of time. At this point you move beyond the awareness of this world.
The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.
Your life is either getting brighter from moment to moment or it’s not. If it’s not getting brighter, it’s because there’s no risk. There’s no risk in thinking instead of stopping your thought. There’s a lot of risk in stopping your thought.
Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation take you wherever it would like to.
We are learning to perceive existence in separate phases. One phase is to see that we are not our thoughts. As you sit, try and feel what is beyond thought – sense that you are separate from thought.
To stop thought it’s necessary to put your life into a state of balance. Otherwise you can sit and meditate for hours and all kinds of conscious and unconscious thoughts will flow through you.
Everything is dependent on your ability to stop thoughts. The longer you can stop your thoughts in meditation, the faster you will evolve, the more power you will pick up and the more knowledgeable and balanced you will become.
The quieter you can make your mind, the more you’ve invoked your will.
If the world does not shine brightly, even just the physical, sensual perception after meditation, you have not meditated. You have sat and thought of things that were not real.
We have to push ourselves to stillness – to the natural state.
Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing those with very bright images.
In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative thoughts, thoughts that agitate the mind.