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Then, in the physical world and outside of it, during the sleep of the material body, we
live totally conscious and enlightened, enjoying the joy of life in the superior worlds.
This continuous tension of the mind, this discipline, takes us to the awakening of the
consciousness.
If we are eating and thinking about business, it is clear that we are dreaming. If we are
driving an automobile and we are thinking of our fiancee, it is logical that we are not
awake, we are dreaming.
If we are working and we are remembering our child s godfather or godmother, our
friend, or brother, etc., it is clear that we are dreaming.
People who live dreaming in the physical world, also live dreaming in the internal
worlds, during those hours in which the physical body is sleeping.
One needs to cease dreaming in the internal worlds. When we stop dreaming in the
physical world, we awaken here and now, and that awakening appears in the internal
worlds.
First seek enlightenment and all else shall be added onto you.
Whosoever is enlightened sees the way. Whosoever is not enlightened cannot see the way
and can easily be led astray from the path and fall into the abyss.
Terrible is the effort and the vigilance needed from second to second, from instant to
instant, in order not to fall into illusions.
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One minute of unawareness is enough and the mind is already dreaming, recalling
something, thinking of something different from the job or deed that we are living at that
moment.
When we learn to be awake from instant to instant in the physical world, we shall live
awake and conscious of the Self from instant to instant in the internal worlds, during the
hours the physical body sleeps and also after death.
It is painful to know that the consciousness of all human beings sleeps and dreams
profoundly, not only during those hours of rest of the physical body, but also during that
state ironically called the vigil state.
Action free of mental dualism produces the awakening of the consciousness.
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CHAPTER VIII
THE TECHNIQUE OF MEDITATION
The technique of meditation permits us to arrive at the heights of illumination,
We should distinguish between a mind that is still and a mind that is stilled by force.
We should distinguish between a mind that is in silence and a mind that is violently
silenced.
When the mind is stilled by force, it is really not still. It is gagged by violence and in the
deeper levels of understanding there exists an entire tempest.
When the mind is violently silenced, it is really not in silence.
Deep within, it clamors, shouts, and despairs.
It is necessary to put an end to modifications of the thinking system during meditation.
When the thinking system remains under our control, illumination comes to us
spontaneously.
Mental control permits us to destroy the shackles created by the mind. To achieve the
stillness and silence of the mind, it is necessary to know how to live from instant to
instant, to know how to take advantage of each moment, to not live the moment in doses.
Take everything from each moment, because each moment is a child of Gnosis, each
moment is absolute, alive and significant.
Momentariness is a special characteristic of the Gnostics. We love the philosophy of
momentariness.
Master Ummom said to his disciples: if you walk, walk, if you sit, sit, but do not
vacillate.
To commence with the study of the technique of meditation is to enter into the
antechamber of the divine peace that surpasses all knowledge.
The most elevated form of thinking is non-thinking. When one achieves the stillness and
silence of the mind, the I with all it passions, dens, appetites, fears, affections, etc.
becomes absent.
It is only in the absence of the I , in the absence of the mind, that the Buddhata can
awaken to unite with the Inner Self and take us to ecstasy.
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The school of black magic of the Subub states that the monad or the great reality will
penetrate in him who does not possess the existential bodies of the Being. This is a false
statement.
What enters into those tenebrous fanatics of Subub are evil entities that express
themselves through these people with gestures, actions, bestial and absurd words. Such
people are possessed by the tenebrous ones.
The stillness and silence of the mind has a single objective: To liberate the Essence from
the mind, so that when fused with the Monad or Inner self, it (the Essence) can
experience that which we call the Truth.
During ecstasy and in the absence of the I , the Essence can live freely in the World of
the Mist of Fire, experiencing the Truth.
When the mind is in a passive and receptive state, absolutely still and in silence, the
Essence or Buddhata is liberated from the mind, and ecstasy arrives.
The Essence is always bottled up in the battle of the opposites, but when the battling ends
and the silence is absolute, then the Essence remains free and the bottle is broken into
pieces.
When we practice meditation, our mind is assaulted by many memories, desires,
passions, preoccupations, etc.
We should avoid the conflict between attention and distraction. A conflict exists between
attention and distraction when we combat those assailants of the mind. The I is the
projector of such mental assailants. Where there is conflict, stillness and silence cannot
exist.
We should nullify the projector through self-observation and comprehension. Examine
each image, each memory, each thought that comes to the mind. Remember that every
thought has two poles: positive and negative.
Entering and leaving are two aspects of a same thing. The dining room and the
washroom, tall and short, pleasant and unpleasant, etc. are always two poles of the same
thing.
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