The workings of a strong and flawless dream “meditation” will allow you to live a dream through with a person just as you wish it to happen. Done correctly, they will have the same dream as you did- and get the message you are trying to give them. But you must know exactly what you are doing. I will take you through this, step by step. Read the rest of this entry »

Do not think that the door of light is the entrance to paradise and that it is a reward for all that what you have coped. No, it is just the start for another journey.

When you pass the door of light, you have engrossed understanding and the priorities of life have changed by and by. Love arises like the morning sun. This love is transforming the light of knowledge to the light of spirit. The borders of your ego are widening and you feel yourself as a part of all living. Read the rest of this entry »

This meditation gives you a feeling of protection in everyday life. The Holy Mother (if you are a Buddhist, then it is Tara or Kuan Yin) watches and guards your steps. Now nothing in life, can harm you. Enhance this feeling throughout the day.

Directions: For this meditation fashion a small altar with a picture of your protecting deity. Place a lighted candle and a few flowers on either side. Then wash your hands, as a symbol of inner and outer cleanliness. Say a short prayer and then start your meditation. Envision your goddess (or God, or Christ, or the Virgin Mary) surrounding you with light and love and insuring your health, strength and protection.

Sit comfortably and relax. Direct your awareness within your body; feel the warmth of your body and feel the blood circulate in the vessels. As you feel life pulsate in your body, let your awareness become finer and try to feel the finer inner energies. Do not tell yourself that this is “only your imagination.” It works nevertheless. You will feel light encircling your body.  Read the rest of this entry »

Make sure you either tape your experience and/or have your partner write down what you say.

(This can be said out loud by your partner or you can do this internally; but, if your partner is saying it out loud, you must visualize this scenario.)

Picture a huge library with beautiful architecture. (Let your imagination run wild!) There are 10 giant steps leading up to the front door. Very slowly climb up the stairs counting each one. Your partner may want to count you through this. This is the meditative steps to put you into the mental state to accept the information. When you get to the top of the stairs, imagine a huge door, with a giant knocker. Knock. Read the rest of this entry »

Picture the word that is most applicable to the problem you now have, and see it clearly in huge block letters marked on a door. Pick the door carefully and note the details of it. Perhaps it is an ornately carved antique door or it is a very simple wooden or painted door. Now see the word you’ve chosen standing out clearly on that door.

Very gently open that door and look in front of you, to the left and to the right to see what is there, just as you would if you went into a room you had never been in before.  Read the rest of this entry »

A technique to completely relax the body and mind to a near-sleep state goes as follows. This one is popular among practitioners of martial arts.

Lay down with your arms by your side.

Begin breathing as though you are pretending to be asleep. Breathe in deeply, hold it for 5 seconds, and breathe out, hold for 5 seconds, breathe in again and repeat the pattern. Read the rest of this entry »

When you hear something about Buddhism in the daily news you usually think of it having a background of huge idols and yellow-robed monks, with a thick atmosphere of incense fumes. You never feel that there is anything in it for you, except, maybe, an exotic spectacle.

But is that all there is in Buddhism? Do the news photographers take pictures of the real Buddhism? Do the glossy magazines show you the fundamentals, or only the externals?

Let us see, then, what Buddhism really is, Buddhism as it was originally expounded and as it still exists underneath the external trappings and trimmings. 

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