VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA VOL1
Five techniques of attentiveness
VIGYAN BHAIRAV TANTRA VOL1
Five techniques of attentiveness
5. ATTENTION BETWEEN EYEBROWS, LET MIND BE BEFORE THOUGHT. LET FORM FILL
WITH BREATH ESSENCE TO THE TOP OF THE HEAD AND THERE SHOWER AS LIGHT.
6. WHEN IN WORLDLY ACTIVITY, KEEP ATTENTION BETWEEN TWO BREATHS, AND SO
PRACTICING, IN A FEW DAYS BE BORN ANEW.
7. WITH INTANGIBLE BREATH IN CENTER OF FOREHEAD, AS THIS REACHES HEART AT
THE MOMENT OF SLEEP, HAVE DIRECTION OVER DREAMS AND OVER DEATH ITSELF.
8. WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND KNOW THE
KNOWER.
9. LIE DOWN AS DEAD. ENRAGED IN WRATH, STAY SO. OR STARE WITHOUT MOVING AN
EYELASH. OR SUCK SOMETHING AND BECOME THE SUCKING.
When
one of the great Greek philosophers, Pythagoras, reached Egypt to enter a
school -- a secret esoteric school of mysticism -- he was refused. And
Pythagoras was one of the best minds ever produced. He could not understand
it. He applied again and again, but he was told that unless he goes through
a particular training of fasting and breathing he cannot be allowed to enter
the school.
Pythagoras is reported to have said, "I have come for knowledge, not for
any sort of discipline." But the school authorities said, "We cannot give
you knowledge unless you are different. And really, we are not interested in
knowledge at all, we are interested in actual experience. No knowledge is
knowledge unless it is lived and experienced. So you will have to go on a
forty-day fast, continuously breathing in a certain manner, with a certain
awareness on certain points."
There was no other way, so Pythagoras had to pass through this training.
After forty days of fasting and breathing, aware, attentive, he was allowed
to enter the school. It is said that Pythagoras said, "You are not allowing
Pythagoras in. I am a different man, I am reborn. You were right and I was
wrong, because then my whole standpoint was intellectual. Through this
purification, my center of being has changed. From the intellect it has come
down to the heart. Now I can feel things. Before this training I could only
understand through the intellect, through the head. Now I can feel. Now
truth is not a concept to me, but a life. It is not going to be a
philosophy, but rather, an experience -- existential."
What was that training he went through? This fifth technique was the
technique that was given to Pythagoras. It was given in Egypt, but the
technique is Indian.
The fifth technique:
ATTENTION BETWEEN EYEBROWS, LET MIND BE BEFORE THOUGHT. LET FORM FILL WITH
BREATH ESSENCE TO THE TOP OF THE HEAD AND THERE SHOWER AS LIGHT. This was
the technique given to Pythagoras. Pythagoras went with this technique to
Greece, and really, he became the fountainhead, the source of all mysticism
in the West. He is the father of all mysticism in the West.
This technique is one of the very deep methods. Try to understand this:
ATTENTION BETWEEN THE EYEBROWS... Modern physiology, scientific research,
says that between the two eyebrows is the gland which is the most mysterious
part of the body. This gland, called the pineal gland, is the third eye of
the Tibetans -- SHIVANETRA: the eye of the Shiva, of the tantra. Between the
two eyes there exists a third eye, but it is non-functioning. It is there,
it can function any moment, but it does not function naturally. You have to
do something about it to open it. It is not blind; it is simply closed. This
technique is to open the third eye.
ATTENTION BETWEEN THE EYEBROWS... Close your eyes, then focus both of your
eyes just in the middle of the two eyebrows. Focus just in the middle, with
closed eyes, as if you are looking with your two eyes. Give total attention
to it.
This is one of the simplest methods of being attentive. You cannot be
attentive to any other part of the body so easily. This gland absorbs
attention like anything. If you give attention to it, both your eyes become
hypnotized with the third eye. They become fixed; they cannot move. If you
are trying to be attentive to any other part of the body it is difficult.
This third eye catches attention, forces attention; It is magnetic for
attention. So all the methods all over the world have used it. It is the
simplest to train you in attention because not only are you trying to be
attentive, the gland itself helps you; it is magnetic. Your attention is
brought to it forcibly. It is absorbed.
It is said in the old tantra scriptures that for the third eye attention is
food. It is hungry; it has been hungry for lives and lives. If you pay
attention to it, it becomes alive. It becomes alive! The food is given to
it. And once you know that attention is food, once you feel that your
attention is magnetically drawn, attracted, pulled by the gland itself,
attention is not a difficult thing then. One has only to know the right
point. So just close your eyes, let your two eyes move just to the middle,
and feel the point. When you are near the point, suddenly your eyes will
become fixed. When it becomes difficult to move them, then know you have
caught the right point.
ATTENTION BETWEEN THE EYEBROWS, LET MIND BE BEFORE THOUGHT... If this
attention is there, for the first time you will come to experience a strange
phenomenon. For the first time you will see thoughts running before you; you
will become the witness. It is just like a film screen: thoughts are running
and you are a witness. Once your attention is focused at the third eye
center, you become immediately the witness of thoughts.
Ordinarily you are not the witness, you are identified with thoughts. If
anger is there, you become anger. If a thought moves, you are not the
witness, you become one with the thought, identified, and you move with it.
You become the thought; you take the form of the thought. When sex is there
you become sex, when anger is there you become anger, when greed is there
you become greed. Any thought moving becomes identified with you. You do not
have any gap between you and the thought.
But focused at the third eye, suddenly you become a witness. Through the
third eye you become the witness. Through the third eye you can see thoughts
running like clouds in the sky or people moving on the street.
You are sitting at your window looking at the sky or at people in the
street; you are not identified. You are aloof, a watcher on the hill --
different. Now if anger is there you can look at it as an object. Now you do
not feel that YOU are angry. You feel that you are surrounded by anger -- a
cloud of anger has come around you -- but you are not the anger. And if you
are not the anger, anger becomes impotent, it cannot affect you; you remain
untouched. The anger will come and go and you will remain centered in
yourself.
This fifth technique is a technique of finding the witness. ATTENTION
BETWEEN THE EYEBROWS, LET THE MIND BE BEFORE THOUGHT. Now look at your
thoughts; now encounter your thoughts. LET FORM FILL WITH BREATH ESSENCE TO
THE TOP OF THE HEAD AND THERE SHOWER AS LIGHT. When attention is focused at
the third eye center, between the two eyebrows, two things happen. One is,
suddenly you become a witness.
This can happen in two ways. You become a witness and you will be centered
at the third eye. Try to be a witness. Whatsoever is happening, try to be a
witness. You are ill, the body is aching and painful, you have misery and
suffering, whatsoever -- be a witness to it. Whatsoever is happening, do not
identify yourself with it. Be a witness, an observer. Then if witnessing
becomes possible, you will be focused in the third eye.
The vice versa is the case also. If you are focused in the third eye, you
will become a witness. These two things are part of one. So the first thing:
by being centered in the third eye there will be the arising of the
witnessing self. Now you can encounter your thoughts. This will be the first
thing. And the second thing will be that now you can feel the subtle,
delicate vibration of breathing. Now you can feel the form of breathing, the
very essence of breathing.
First try to understand what is meant by "the form," by "the essence of
breathing." While you are breathing, you are not only breathing air. Science
says you are breathing only air -- just oxygen, hydrogen, and other gases in
their combined form of air. They say you are breathing air! But tantra says
that air is just the vehicle, not the real thing. You are breathing prana --
vitality. Air is just the medium; prana is the content. You are breathing
prana, not only air.
Modern science is still not able to find out whether there is something
like prana, but some researchers have felt something mysterious. Breathing
is not simply air. It has been felt by many modern researchers also. In
particular, one name is to be mentioned -- Wilhelm Reich, a German
psychologist who called it "orgone energy." It is the same thing as prana.
He says that while you are breathing, air is just the container and there is
a mysterious content which can be called orgone or prana or ELAN VITAL. But
that is very subtle. Really, it is not material. Air is the material thing
-- the container is material -- but something subtle, non-material, is
moving through it.
The effects of it can be felt. When you are with a very vital person, you
will feel a certain vitality arising in you. If you are with a very sick
person you will feel sucked, as if something has been taken out of you. When
you go to the hospital, why do you feel so tired? You are being sucked from
everywhere. The whole hospital atmosphere is ill, and everyone there needs
more elan vital, more prana. So if you are there, suddenly your prana begins
to flow out of you. Why do you feel suffocated sometimes when you are in a
crowd? Because your prana is being sucked. While you are alone under the sky
in the morning, under the trees, suddenly you feel a vitality in you -- the
prana. Each person needs a particular space. If that space is not given,
your prana is sucked.
Wilhelm Reich did many experiments, but he was thought to be a madman.
Science has its own superstitions, and science is a very orthodox thing.
Science cannot feel yet that there is anything more than air, but India has
been experimenting with it for centuries.
You may have heard or you may have even seen someone going into SAMADHI,
cosmic consciousness -- underground samadhi -- for days together, with no
air penetrating. One man went into such underground samadhi in Egypt in 1880
for forty years. Those who had buried him all died, because he was to come
out of his samadhi in 1920, forty years afterwards. In 1920 no one believed
that they would find him alive, but he was found alive. He lived afterwards
for ten years more. He had become completely pale, but he was alive. And
there had been no possibility of air reaching to him.
He was asked by medical doctors and others, "What is the secret of it?" He
said, "We do not know. We only know this, that prana can enter and flow
anywhere." Air cannot penetrate, but prana can penetrate. Once you know that
you can suck prana directly, without the container, then you can go into
samadhi for centuries even.
By being focused in the third eye, suddenly you can observe the very
essence of breath -- not breath, but the very essence of breath, prana. And
if you can observe the essence of breath, prana, you are at the point from
where the jump, the breakthrough happens.
The sutra says, LET FORM FILL WITH BREATH ESSENCE TO THE TOP OF THE HEAD...
And when you come to feel the essence of breathing, prana, just imagine that
your head is filled with it -- just imagine. No need of any effort. I will
explain to you how imagination works. When you are focused at the third eye
center, imagine, and the thing happens -- then and there.
Now your imagination is just impotent; you go on imagining and nothing
happens. But sometimes, unknowingly, in ordinary life also things happen.
You are imagining about your friend and suddenly there is a knock on the
door. You say it is a coincidence that the friend has come. Sometimes your
imagination works just like coincidence. But whenever this happens, now try
and remember and analyze the whole thing. Whenever it happens that you feel
your imagination has become actual, go inside and observe. Somewhere your
attention must have been near the third eye. Whenever this coincidence
happens, it is not a coincidence. It looks that way because you do not know
the secret science. Your mind must have moved unknowingly near the third eye
center. If your attention is in the third eye, just imagination is enough to
create any phenomenon.
This sutra says that when you are focused between the eyebrows and you can
feel the very essence of breathing, LET FORM FILL. Now imagine that this
essence is filling your whole head, particularly the top of the head, the
SAHASRAR -- the highest psychic center. And the moment you imagine, it will
be filled. THERE -- at the top of the head -- SHOWER AS LIGHT. This prana
essence is showering from the top of your head as light. And it WILL begin
to shower, and under the shower of light you will be refreshed, reborn,
completely new. That is what inner rebirth means.
So two things: first, focused at the third eye your imagination becomes
potent, powerful. That is why so much insistence has been given on purity.
Before doing these practices, be pure. Purity is not a moral concept for
tantra, purity is significant -- because if you are focused at the third eye
and your mind is impure, your imagination can become dangerous: dangerous to
you, dangerous to others. If you are thinking to murder someone, if this
idea is in the mind, just imagining may kill the man. That is why there is
so much insistence on being pure first.
Pythagoras was told to go through fasting, through particular breathing --
this breathing -- because here one is traveling in a very dangerous land.
Because wherever there is power there is danger, and if the mind is impure,
whenever you get power your impure thoughts will take hold of it
immediately.
You have imagined many times to kill but the imagination cannot work,
fortunately. If it works, if it is actualized immediately, then it will
become dangerous -- not only to others, but to yourself also, because so
many times you have thought to commit suicide. If the mind is focused at the
third eye, just thinking of suicide will become suicide. You will not have
any time to change, immediately it will happen.
You might have observed someone being hypnotized. When someone is
hypnotized, the hypnotist can say anything and immediately the hypnotized
person follows. Howsoever absurd the order, howsoever irrational or even
impossible, the hypnotized person follows it. What is happening? This fifth
technique is at the base of all hypnotism. Whenever someone is being
hypnotized he is told to focus his eyes at a particular point -- on some
light, some dot on the wall or anything, or on the eyes of the hypnotist.
When you focus your eyes at any particular point, within three minutes your
inner attention begins to flow toward the third eye. And the moment your
inner attention begins to flow toward the third eye, your face begins to
change. And the hypnotist knows when your face begins to change. Suddenly
your face loses all vitality. It becomes dead, as if deeply asleep. The
hypnotist knows immediately when your face has lost the luster, the
aliveness. It means that now attention is being sucked by the third eye
center. Your face has become dead; the whole energy is running toward the
third eye center.
Now the hypnotist immediately knows that anything said will happen. He
says, "Now you are falling into a deep sleep" -- you will fall immediately.
He says, "Now you are becoming unconscious" -- you will become unconscious
immediately. Now anything can be done. If he says, "Now you have become
Napoleon," you will become. You will begin to behave like a Napoleon, you
will begin to talk like Napoleon. Your gestures will change. Your
unconscious will take the order and will create the actuality. If you are
suffering from a disease, now it can be ordered that the disease has
disappeared and it will disappear. Or any new disease can be created.
Just putting an ordinary stone from the street in your hand, the hypnotist
can say, "This is fire in your hand," and you will feel intense heat; your
hand will get burned -- not only in the mind, but actually. Actually your
skin will get burned. You will have a burning sensation. What is happening?
There is no fire, there is just an ordinary stone, cold. How? How does this
burning happen? You are focused at the third eye center, your imagination is
being given suggestions by the hypnotist, and they are being actualized. If
the hypnotist says, "Now you are dead," you will die immediately. Your heart
will stop. It WILL stop.
This happens because of the third eye. In the third eye, imagination and
actualization are not two things. Imagination is the fact. Imagine, and it
is so. There is no gap between dream and reality. There is NO gap between
dream and reality! Dream, and it will become real. That is why Shankara has
said that this whole world is nothing but the dream of the divine... the
DREAM of the divine! This is because the divine is centered in the third eye
-- always, eternally -- so whatsoever the divine dreams becomes real. If you
are also centered in the third eye, whatsoever you dream will become real.
Sariputta came to Buddha. He meditated deeply, then many things, many
visions started coming, as it happens with anyone who goes into deep
meditation. He began to see heavens, he began to see hells, he began to see
angels, gods, demons. And they were actual, so real that he came running to
Buddha to tell him that such and such a vision had come to him. But Buddha
said, "It is nothing -- just dreams. Just dreams!"
But Sariputta said, "They are so real. How can I say that they are dreams?
When I see a flower in my vision it is more real than any flower in the
world. The fragrance is there; I can touch it. When I see you," he said to
Buddha, "I do not see you as real. That flower is more real than your being
here just before me, so how can I differentiate between what is real and
what is dream?" Buddha said, "Now that you are centered in the third eye,
dream and reality are one. Whatsoever you are dreaming will be real, and
vice versa also."
For one who is centered in the third eye dreams will become real and the
whole reality will become just a dream, because when your dream can become
real you know there is no basic difference between dream and reality. So
when Shankara says that this whole world is just MAYA, a dream of the
divine, it is not a theoretical proposition, it is not a philosophical
statement. It is, rather, the inner experience of one who is focused in the
third eye.
When you are focused in the third eye, just imagine that the essence of
prana is showering from the top of the head, just as if you are sitting
under a tree and flowers are showering, or you are just under the sky and
suddenly a cloud begins to shower, or you are just sitting in the morning
and the sun rises and rays begin to shower. Imagine, and immediately there
is a shower -- a shower of light falling down from the top of your head.
This shower recreates you, gives you a new birth. You are reborn.
The sixth technique:
WHEN IN WORLDLY ACTIVITY, KEEP ATTENTIVE BETWEEN THE TWO BREATHS, AND SO
PRACTICING, IN A FEW DAYS, BE BORN ANEW.
WHEN IN WORLDLY ACTIVITY, KEEP ATTENTIVE BETWEEN THE TWO BREATHS... Forget
breaths -- keep attentive in between. One breath has come: before it
returns, before it is exhaled out, there is the gap, the interval. One
breath has gone out; before it is taken in again, the gap. IN WORLDLY
ACTIVITY KEEP ATTENTIVE BETWEEN THE TWO BREATHS, AND SO PRACTICING, IN A FEW
DAYS, BE BORN ANEW. But this has to be done continuously. This sixth
technique has to be done continuously. That is why this is mentioned: WHEN
IN WORLDLY ACTIVITY... Whatsoever you are doing, keep your attention in the
gap between the two breaths. But it must be practiced while in activity.
We have discussed one technique that is just similar. Now there is only
this difference, that this has to be practiced while in worldly activity. Do
not practice it in isolation. This practice is to be done while you are
doing something else. You are eating -- go on eating and be attentive of the
gap. You are walking -- go on walking and be attentive of the gap. You are
going to sleep -- lie down, let sleep come, but you go on being attentive of
the gap. Why in activity? Because activity distracts the mind, activity
calls for your attention again and again. Do not be distracted, be fixed at
the gap. And do not stop activity, let the activity continue. You will have
two layers of existence -- doing and being.
We have two layers of existence: the world of doing and the world of being;
the circumference and the center. Go on working on the periphery, on the
circumference; do not stop it. But go on working attentively on the center
also. What will happen? Your activity will become an acting, as if you are
playing a part.
You are playing a part -- for example, in a drama. You have become Ram or
you have become Christ. You go on acting as Christ or as Ram, and still you
remain yourself. In the center, you know who you are; on the periphery you
go on acting as Ram, Christ or anyone. You know you are not Ram -- you are
acting. You know who you are. Your attention is centered in you; your
activity continues on the circumference.
If this method is practiced, your whole life will become a long drama. You
will be an actor playing roles, but constantly centered in the gap. If you
forget the gap then you are not playing roles, you have become the role.
Then it is not a drama; you have mistaken it as life. That is what we have
done. Everyone thinks he is living life. It is not life, it is just a role
-- a part which has been given to you by the society, by the circumstances,
by the culture, by the tradition, the country, the situation. You have been
given a role and you are playing it; you have become identified with it. To
break that identification there is this technique.
Krishna has many names. Krishna is one of the greatest actors. He is
constantly centered in himself and playing -- playing many roles, many
games, but absolutely non serious. Seriousness comes from identification. If
you really become Ram in the drama then there are bound to be problems.
Those problems will come out of your seriousness. When Sita is stolen you
may get a heart attack, and the whole play will have to be stopped. If you
really become Ram a heart attack is certain... even heart failure.
But you are just an actor. Sita is stolen, but nothing is stolen. You will
go back to your home and you will sleep peacefully. Not even in a dream will
you feel that Sita is stolen. When really Sita was stolen, Ram himself was
weeping, crying and asking the trees, "Where has my Sita gone? Who has taken
her?" But this is the point to understand. If Ram is really weeping and
asking the trees, he has become identified. He is no more Ram; he is no more
a divine person.
This is the point to remember, that for Ram his real life also was just a
part. You have seen other actors playing Ram, but Ram himself was just
playing a part -- on a greater stage, of course.
India has a very beautiful story about it. I think that the story is
unique; nowhere else in any part of the world does such a thing exist. It is
said that Valmiki wrote the RAMAYANA before Ram was born, and then Ram had
to follow. So really, the first act of Ram was also just a drama. The story
was written before Ram was born and then Ram had to follow, so what can he
do? When a man like Valmiki writes the story, Ram has to follow. So
everything was fixed in a way. Sita was to be stolen and the war had to be
fought.
If you can understand this, then you can understand the theory of destiny,
BHAGYA -- fate. It has a very deep meaning. And the meaning is, if you take
it that everything is fixed for you, your life becomes a drama. If you are
playing the role of Ram in the drama you cannot change it, everything is
fixed, even your dialogue. If you say something to Sita it is just repeating
something that is fixed. You cannot change it if life is taken as fixed.
For example, you are going to die on a particular day -- it is fixed. When
you will be dying you will be weeping, but it is fixed. And such and such
persons will be around you -- it is fixed. If everything is fixed,
everything becomes a drama. If everything is fixed, it means you are just to
enact it. You are not asked to live it, you are just asked to enact it.
This technique, the sixth technique, is just to make yourself a psychodrama
-- just a play. You are focused in the gap between two breaths and life
moves on, on the periphery. If your attention is at the center, then your
attention is not really on the periphery -- that is just "sub-attention"; it
just happens somewhere near your attention. You can feel it, you can know
it, but it is not significant. It is as if it is not happening to you. I
will repeat this: if you practice this sixth technique, your whole life will
be as if it is not happening to you, as if it is happening to someone else.
The seventh technique: WITH INTANGIBLE BREATH IN CENTER OF FOREHEAD, AS
THIS REACHES HEART AT THE MOMENT OF SLEEP, HAVE DIRECTION OVER DREAMS AND
OVER DEATH ITSELF. More and more you are entering deeper layers. WITH
INTANGIBLE BREATH IN CENTER OF FOREHEAD... If you have known the third eye
then you know the intangible breath, the invisible prana in the center of
the forehead, and then you know the showering -- the energy, the light
showers. AS THIS REACHES HEART... When the shower will reach your heart...
AT THE MOMENT OF SLEEP, HAVE DIRECTION OVER DREAMS AND OVER DEATH ITSELF.
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Take this technique in three parts. One, you must be able to feel the prana
in breath -- the intangible part of it, the invisible part of it, the
immaterial part of it. It comes if you are attentive between the two
eyebrows; then it comes easily. If you are attentive in the gap, then too it
comes, but a little less easily. If you are aware of the center at your
navel where breath comes and touches and goes out, it also comes, but with
less ease. The easiest way to know the invisible part of breath is to be
centered at the third eye. But wherever you are centered, it comes, you
begin to feel the prana flowing in.
If you can feel the prana flowing in you, you can know when you are going
to die. Six months before the day of your death you begin to know, if you
can feel the invisible part of breath. Why do so many saints declare the day
of their death? It is easy, because if you can see the content of the
breath, the prana flowing into you, the moment the process reverses you can
feel it. Before you die, six months before you die, the process reverses:
prana begins to flow out of you. Then the breath is not taking it in.
Rather, on the contrary, the breath is taking it out -- the same breath.
You cannot feel it because you do not know the invisible part -- you know
only the visible, you know only the vehicle. The vehicle will be the same.
Now the breath is carrying prana in, leaving it there; then the vehicle goes
back empty. Then again it is filled with the prana and it comes in. So the
ingoing breath and the outgoing breath are not the same, remember. The
ingoing breath and the outgoing breath are the same as vehicles, but the
incoming breath is filled with prana and the outgoing breath is empty. You
have taken in the prana and the breath has become empty.
The reverse happens when you are nearing death. The incoming breath comes
prana-less, empty, because your body cannot suck prana from the cosmos. You
are going to die; there is no need for it. The whole process has reversed.
And when the breath goes out, it takes your prana out. One who has been able
to see the invisible can know his day of death immediately. Six months
before, the process reverses.
This sutra is very, very significant: WITH INTANGIBLE BREATH IN CENTER OF
FOREHEAD, AS THIS REACHES HEART AT THE MOMENT OF SLEEP, HAVE DIRECTION OVER
DREAMS AND OVER DEATH ITSELF. While you are falling into sleep this
technique has to be practiced -- then only, not at any other time. While you
are falling asleep, only then; that is the right moment to practice this
technique. You are falling asleep. By and by, by and by, sleep is overtaking
you. Within moments, your consciousness will dissolve; you will not be
aware. Before that moment comes, become aware -- aware of the breath and the
invisible part prana, and feel it coming to the heart.
Go on feeling that it is coming to the heart. The prana enters from your
heart into the body. Go on feeling that the prana is coming into the heart,
and let sleep come while you are continuously feeling it. You go on feeling,
and let sleep come and drown you.
If this happens -- that you are feeling invisible breath coming into the
heart and sleep overtakes you -- you will be aware in dreams. You will know
that you are dreaming. Ordinarily we do not know that we are dreaming. While
you dream you think that this is reality. That too happens because of the
third eye. Have you seen anyone asleep? His eyes move upwards and become
focused in the third eye. If you have not seen, then see.
Your child is sleeping... just open his eyes and see where his eyes are.
His pupils have gone up and they are focused in the third eye. I say look at
children, do not look at grown-ups -- they are not believable because their
sleep is not deep. They will just be thinking that they are asleep. Look at
children, their eyes move up. They become focused in the third eye. Because
of this focusing in the third eye you take your dreams as real, you cannot
feel they are dreams -- they are real. You will know when you get up in the
morning. Then you will know that "I was dreaming." But this is the later,
retrospective realization. You cannot realize in the dream that you are
dreaming. If you realize it, then there are two layers: dream is there but
you are awake, you are aware. For one who becomes aware in dreams, this
sutra is wonderful. It says, HAVE DIRECTION OVER DREAMS AND OVER DEATH
ITSELF.
If you can become aware of dreams, you can do two things. You can create
dreams -- one. Ordinarily you cannot create dreams. How impotent man is! You
cannot even create dreams. If you want to dream a particular thing you
cannot dream it; it is not in your hands. How powerless man is! Even dreams
cannot be created. You are just a victim of dreams, not the creator. A dream
happens to you; you cannot do anything. Neither can you stop it nor can you
create it.
But if you move into sleep remembering the heart being filled with prana,
continuously being touched by prana with every breath, you will become a
master of your dreams -- and this is a rare mastery. Then you can dream
whatsoever dreams you like. Just note while you are falling asleep that "I
want to dream this dream," and that dream will come to you. Just say, while
falling asleep, "I do not want to dream that dream," and that dream cannot
enter your mind.
But what is the use of becoming the master of your dreaming? Isn't it
useless? No, it is not useless. Once you become master of your dreams you
will never dream -- it is absurd. When you are master of your dreams,
dreaming stops; there is no need for it. And when dreaming stops, your sleep
has a different quality altogether, and the quality is the same as of death.
Death is deep sleep. If your sleep can become as deep as death, that means
there will be no dreaming. Dreaming creates superficiality in sleep. You
move on the surface because of the dreams; because of hanging on to the
dreams, you move on the surface. When there is no dreaming you just drop
into the sea, its depth is reached.
Death is the same. That is why people in India have always been saying that
sleep is a short duration of death, and death is a long sleep --
qualitatively they are the same. Sleep is a day-to-day death. Death is a
life-to-life phenomenon, a life-to-life sleep. Every day you are tired. You
fall into sleep and you regain your vitality, your aliveness in the morning;
you are reborn. After a life of seventy or eighty years you are tired
completely. Now such short durations of death won't do; you need a great
death. After that great death or great sleep, you are reborn with a totally
new body.
Once you can know dreamless sleep and can be aware in it, then there will
be no fear of death. No one has ever died, no one can die -- that is the
only impossibility.
Just a day before I was telling you that death is the only certainty, and
now I say to you that death is impossible. No one has ever died and no one
can die -- that is the only impossibility -- because the universe is life.
You are again and again reborn, but the sleep is so deep that you forget
your old identity. Your mind is washed clean of the memories.
Think of it in this way. Today you are going to sleep: it is just as if
there were some mechanism -- and soon we will have this -- like that which
can erase on a tape recorder, which can wipe a tape clean so that whatsoever
was recorded is no more there. The same is possible with memory, because
memory is really just a deep recording. Sooner or later we will have a
mechanism which can be put on the head and it will clean your mind
completely. In the morning you will no longer be the same person because you
won't be able to remember who it was who went to sleep. Then your sleep will
look like death. There will be a discontinuity; you won't be able to
remember who went to sleep. This is happening naturally. When you die and
you are reborn, you cannot remember who died. You start again.
With this technique, first you will become the master of your dreams --
that is, dreaming will cease. Or if you want to dream you will be able to
dream, but dreaming will become voluntary. It will not be non-voluntary, it
will not be forced upon you; you will not be a victim. Then the quality of
your sleep will become just like that of death. Then you will know that
death is sleep.
That is why this sutra says: HAVE DIRECTION OVER DREAMS AND OVER DEATH
ITSELF. you will know that death is just a long sleep -- and helpful and
beautiful because it gives you new life; it gives you everything anew. Death
ceases to be... with cessation of dreaming, death ceases to be.
There is another meaning to gaining power over death, direction over death.
If you can come to feel that death is just a sleep, you will be able to
direct it. If you can direct your dreams, you can direct your death also.
You can choose where you are to be born again, to whom, when, in what form;
you will become master of your birth also.
Buddha died... I am not referring to his last life, but to his last-but-one
life, before he became Buddha. Before dying he said, "I will be born to such
and such parents; such will be my mother, such will be my father. But my
mother will die immediately... when I am born my mother will die
immediately. Before I am born my mother will have certain dreams." Not only
do you gain power from your dreams, you gain power from others' dreams also.
So Buddha, as an example, said, "Certain dreams will be there. When I will
be in the womb, my mother will have certain dreams. So whenever any woman
has these dreams in this sequence, know well I am going to be born to her."
And it happened. Buddha's mother dreamed the same sequence. The sequence
was known all over India, because it was no ordinary statement. It was known
to everyone, particularly those who were interested in religion and the
deeper things of life and the esoteric ways of life. It was known, so the
dreams were interpreted. Freud was not the first interpreter -- and, of
course, not the deepest. Only in the West was he the first.
So Buddha's father immediately called dream interpreters, the Freuds and
Jungs of those days, and he asked, "What does this sequence mean? I am
afraid. These dreams are rare, and they go on repeating in the same
sequence. There are one, two, three, four, five, six dreams continuously
being repeated. There are the same dreams, as if one is seeing the same film
again and again. What is happening?"
So they told him, "You are going to be the father of a great soul -- one
who is going to be a buddha. But then your wife is going to be in danger,
because whenever this buddha is born it is difficult for the mother to
survive."
The father asked, "Why?" The interpreters said, "We cannot say why, but
this soul who is going to be born has made a statement that when he will be
born again, the mother will die immediately."
Later on Buddha was asked, "Why did your mother die immediately?" He said,
"Giving birth to a buddha is such a big event that everything else becomes
futile afterwards. So the mother cannot exist. She will have to be born
again to start anew. It is such a climax giving birth to a buddha, it is
such a peak, that the mother cannot exist beyond it."
So the mother died. And Buddha had said in his previous life that he would
be born while his mother was standing under a palm tree -- and it happened.
The mother was standing under a palm tree -- standing while Buddha was born.
And he had said, "I will be born while my mother is standing under a palm
tree, and I will take seven steps. Immediately, I will walk. These are the
signs I give to you," he said, "so that you will know that a buddha is
born." And he carried out everything.
And this is not only so about Buddha. It is so about Jesus, it is so about
Mahavir, it is so about many others. Every Jain TIRTHANKARA has predicted in
his previous life how he is going to be born. And they have given particular
dream sequences -- that such and such will be the symbols -- and they have
told how it will happen.
You can direct. Once you can direct your dreams you can direct everything,
because dream is the very stuff of this world. This life is made out of the
stuff of dreams. Once you can direct your dreams you can direct everything.
This sutra says, OVER DEATH ITSELF. Then one can give a certain birth, a
certain life to oneself.
We are just victims. We do not know why we are born, why we die. Who
directs us -- and why? There seems to be no reason. It all seems just a
chaos, just accidental. It is because we are not masters. Once we are
masters it is not like this.
The eighth technique: WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF
BREATH AND KNOW THE KNOWER. There is a slight difference in the techniques
-- slight modifications. But though the differences are slight in the
techniques, for you they may be great. A single word makes a great
difference. WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH. The
incoming breath has one junction where it turns, the outgoing breath has
another junction where it turns. With these two turnings -- and we have
discussed these turnings -- a slight difference is made: that is, slight in
the technique, but for the seeker it may be great. Only one condition is
added -- WITH UTMOST DEVOTION -- and the whole technique becomes different.
In the first form of it there was no question of devotion, just a
scientific technique. You do it, and it works. But there are persons who
cannot do such dry, scientific techniques. Those who are heart-oriented,
those who belong to the world of devotion, for them a slight difference has
been made: WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND
KNOW THE KNOWER.
If you are not of the scientific bent, of the scientific attitude, if you
are not a scientific mind, then try this: WITH UTMOST DEVOTION -- with
faith, love, trust -- CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND KNOW THE
KNOWER. How to do this? How? You can have devotion about someone: about
Krishna, about Christ you can have devotion. But how can you have devotion
about yourself, about this junction of breathing? The phenomenon seems
absolutely non-devotional. But that depends....
Tantra says that the body is the temple. Your body is the temple of the
divine, the abode of the divine, so do not treat your body as an object. It
is sacred, it is holy. And while you are taking a breath in, it is not only
you who is taking the breath, it is the divine within you. You are eating,
you are moving or walking... look at it in this way: it is not you, but the
divine moving in you. Then the whole thing becomes absolutely devotional.
It is said about many saints that they love their bodies. They treat their
bodies as if their bodies belong to their beloveds. You can treat your body
in this way or you can treat it just like a mechanism -- that again is an
attitude. You can treat it with guilt, sin; you can treat it as something
dirty; you can treat it as something miraculous, as a miracle; you can treat
it as the abode of the divine. It depends on you. If you can treat your body
as a temple, then this technique will be helpful -- WITH UTMOST DEVOTION...
Try it. While you are eating, try it. Do not think that YOU are eating.
Think that it is the divine in you who is eating, and look at the change.
You are eating the same thing, you are the same, but immediately everything
becomes different. You are giving the food to the divine. You are taking a
bath -- a very ordinary, trivial thing -- but change the attitude: feel that
you are giving a bath to the divine in you. Then this technique will be
easy: WITH UTMOST DEVOTION, CENTER ON THE TWO JUNCTIONS OF BREATH AND KNOW
THE KNOWER.
The ninth technique: LIE DOWN AS DEAD. ENRAGED IN WRATH, STAY SO. OR STARE
WITHOUT MOVING AN EYELASH. OR SUCK SOMETHING AND BECOME THE SUCKING.
LIE DOWN AS DEAD. Try it: suddenly you have gone dead. Leave the body! Do
not move it, because you are dead. Just imagine that you are dead. You
cannot move the body, you cannot move the eyes, you cannot cry, you cannot
scream, you cannot do anything, you are just dead. And then feel how it
feels. But do not deceive. You can deceive -- you can slightly move the
body. Do not move. If some mosquito is there, then treat the body as if it
is dead. It is one of the most used techniques.
Raman Maharshi attained his enlightenment through this technique, but it
was not a technique used by him in his life. In his life it suddenly
happened, spontaneously. But he must have persisted with this in some past
life, because nothing happens spontaneously. Everything has a causal link, a
causality. Suddenly one night Raman felt -- he was just young, fourteen or
fifteen at the time -- that he was going to die. And it was so certain in
his mind that death had taken over. He couldn't move his body, he felt as if
he was paralyzed. Then he felt a sudden choking, and he knew that now the
heart was going to stop. He could not even cry and say to another, "I am
going to die."
Sometimes it happens in some nightmare -- you cannot cry, you cannot move.
Even when you become awake for a few moments you cannot do anything. That
happened. He had absolute power over his consciousness, but no power over
his body. He knew he was there, that he was present, conscious, alert, but
he felt he was going to die. And the knowledge became so certain that there
was no other possibility, so he just gave up. He closed his eyes and
remained there, just waiting to die; he waited there just to die.
By and by the body became stiff. The body died, but then it became a
problem. He knew that the body had died, but he was there and he knew it. He
knew that he was alive and that the body had died. Then he came back. In the
morning the body became okay but the same man never returned -- because he
had known death. He had known a different realm, a different dimension of
consciousness.
He escaped from the house. That death experience changed him completely. He
became one of the very few enlightened persons of this age.
This is the technique. This happened spontaneously to Raman, but it is not
going to happen spontaneously to you. But try it. In some life it may become
spontaneous. It may happen while you are trying it. And if it is not going
to happen, the effort is never wasted. It is in you; it remains in you as a
seed. Sometime, when the time is ripe and the rains will fall, it will
sprout.
Every spontaneity is just like this. The seed was sown some time ago, but
the time was not ripe; there were no rains. In another life the time becomes
ripe. You are more mature, more experienced, more frustrated with the world
-- then suddenly, in a certain situation, there are rains and the seed
explodes.
LIE DOWN AS DEAD. ENRAGED IN WRATH, STAY SO. Of course, while you are dying
it will not be a happy moment. It is not going to be so blissful while you
are feeling that you are dead. Fear will take you, anger may come in the
mind, or frustration, sadness, sorrow, anguish... anything. It will differ
from individual to individual.
The sutra says: ENRAGED IN WRATH, STAY SO. If you feel enraged, stay so. If
you feel sad, stay so. If you feel anxiety, fear, stay so. You are dead and
you cannot do anything, so stay so. Whatsoever is in the mind, the body is
dead and you cannot do anything, so stay.
That staying is beautiful. If you can stay for a few minutes, suddenly you
will feel that everything has changed. But we start moving. If there is some
emotion in the mind, the body begins to move. That is why we call it
"emotion" -- it creates motion in the body. If you are angry, suddenly your
body begins to move. If you are sad, your body begins to move. That is why
it is called emotion, because it creates motion in the body. Feel dead and
do not allow emotions to move your body. Let them be there, but you STAY SO
-- fixed, dead. Whatsoever is there... no movement. Stay! No movement.
OR STARE WITHOUT MOVING AN EYELASH. This OR STARE WITHOUT MOVING AN EYELASH
was the method of Meher Baba. For years together he was staring just at the
ceiling of his room. For years together he was just lying dead on the floor,
staring at the ceiling without moving an eyelash, without moving his eyes.
He would lie down for hours together, just staring, not doing anything.
Staring with the eyes is good, because you become fixed again in the third
eye. And once you are fixed in the third eye, even if you want to move the
eyelids you cannot; they become fixed.
Meher Baba attained through this staring, and you say, "How with these
small exercises...?" But for three years he was staring at the ceiling not
doing anything. Three years is a long time. Do it for three minutes and you
will feel as if you have been lying there for three years. Three minutes
will become very, very long. It will look as if time is not passing and as
if the clock has stopped.
Meher Baba stared and stared and stared. By and by thoughts ceased,
movement ceased, and he became just a consciousness, he became just a
staring. Then he remained silent for his whole life. He became so silent
inside by this staring that it became impossible for him to formulate words
again.
Meher Baba was in America. There was one man who could read others'
thoughts, who could do mind readings, and he was really one of the rarest
mind readers. He would close his eyes, sit before you, and within a few
minutes he would become attuned with you and he would begin to write what
you are thinking. Thousands and thousands of times he was examined, and he
was always right, always correct. So someone brought him to Meher Baba. He
sat there, and this was the only failure of his life -- the only failure.
But then again we cannot say it was a failure. He tried and tried, and he
began to perspire, but he couldn't catch a single word.
Pen in his hand, he remained there and said, "What type of man is this? I
cannot read because there is nothing to read. This man is absolutely vacant.
I even forget that someone is sitting there. After closing my eyes, I have
to open them again and look to see whether that man is there or whether he
has escaped. So it is difficult to concentrate, because the moment I close
my eyes I feel I am being deceived -- as if that man has escaped and there
is no one before me. I have to open my eyes again, and I find that this man
is there. And he is not thinking at all." That staring, that constant
staring had stopped his mind completely.
OR STARE WITHOUT MOVING AN EYELASH. OR SUCK SOMETHING AND BECOME THE
SUCKING. These are slight modifications. Anything will do... you are dead --
it is enough.
ENRAGED IN WRATH, STAY SO. Even this part can become one technique. You are
in anger: lie down, remain in the anger. Do not move from it, do not do
anything, just remain still.
Krishnamurti goes on talking about this. His whole technique depends on
this single thing: ENRAGED IN WRATH, STAY SO. If you are angry then be
angry, and remain angry. Do not move. If you can stay so, anger will go and
you will come out a different man. If you are in anxiety, do not do
anything. Remain there, stay there. The anxiety will go; you will come out a
different man. And once you have looked at anxiety without being moved by
it, you will be the master.
OR STARE WITHOUT MOVING AN EYELASH. OR SUCK SOMETHING AND BECOME THE
SUCKING. This last one is physical and easy to do, because sucking is the
first thing a child has to do. Sucking is the first act of life. When the
child is born, he begins to cry. You may not have tried to penetrate into
why there is this crying. He is not really crying -- it appears to us that
he is crying -- he is just sucking air. And if the child cannot cry, within
a few minutes he will be dead, because crying is the first effort to suck
air. The child was not breathing while he was in the womb. He was alive
without breathing. He was doing the same which yogis are doing underground.
He was just getting prana without breathing -- pure prana from the mother.
That is why the love between the child and the mother is an altogether
different thing from other loves, because the purest prana -- energy --
joins both. Now this can never happen again. There was a subtle pranic
relationship. The mother was giving her prana to the child, and the child
was not breathing at all. When he is born, he is thrown out of the mother
into an unknown world. Now the prana, the energy, will not reach him so
easily. He has to breathe himself.
The first cry is an effort to suck, and then he will suck the milk from the
mother's breast. These are the first basic acts which you have done.
Whatsoever YOU have done comes later -- these are the first life acts. They
can be practiced also. This sutra says: OR SUCK SOMETHING AND BECOME THE
SUCKING. Suck something -- just suck the air, but forget the air and become
the sucking. What does this mean? You are sucking something; you are the
sucker, not the sucking. You are standing behind and sucking.
This sutra says, do not stand behind, move in the act and become the
sucking. Try anything that will work. You are running -- become the running,
do not be the runner. Become the running and forget the runner. Feel that
there is no runner inside, just the process of running. You are the process,
a river-like process running. Nobody is there inside. It is quiet inside and
there is only a process.
Sucking is good, but you will feel that it is very difficult because we
have forgotten it completely -- but not really completely, however, because
we go on substituting for it. The mother's breast is substituted by a
cigarette; you go on sucking it. It is nothing but the nipple, the mother's
breast and the nipple. And when the warm smoke flows in, it is just like
warm milk.
So those who were not really allowed to suck the mother's breast as much as
they wanted will smoke later on. This is a substitute, but the substitute
will do. While you are smoking a cigarette become the sucking. Forget the
cigarette, forget the smoker: become the smoking.
There is the object you are sucking, there is the subject who is sucking,
and the process in between of sucking. Become the sucking, become the
process. Try it. You will have to try it with many things; then you will
find out what is right for you.
You are drinking water, the cold water is going in -- become the drinking.
Do not drink the water. Forget the water, forget yourself and your thirst,
just become the drinking -- the very process. Become the coolness, the
touch, the entry, and the sucking that has to be given to the process.
Why not? What will happen? If you become the sucking, what will happen? If
you can become the sucking, immediately you will become innocent, like a
first-day, newly-born child -- because that is the first process. You will
be regressed in a way. But the hankering is there. The very being of man
hankers after sucking. He tries many things, but nothing helps because the
point is missed. Unless you become the sucking, nothing will help. So try
it.
I gave this method to one man. He had tried many things; he had tried many,
many methods. Then he came to me, so I asked him, "If I give you only one
thing to choose in the whole world, what are you going to choose?" And I
told him immediately to close his eyes and tell me, and not think about it.
He became afraid, hesitant, so I told him, "Do not be afraid, do not be
hesitant. Be frank and tell me."
He said, "This is absurd, but a breast appears before me."
And then he began to feel guilty, so I said, "Do not feel guilty. Nothing
is wrong in a breast; it is one of the most beautiful things, so why be
guilty?"
But he said, "This has always been an obsession with me." And he said to
me, "Please tell me first, then you can proceed with your method and the
technique: first tell me why I am so much interested in the breasts of
women? Whenever I look at a woman, the first thing I see is the breast. The
whole body is secondary."
And it is not so only with him, it is so with everyone -- with almost
everyone. And it is natural, because the breast of the mother was the first
acquaintance with the universe. It is basic. The first contact with the
universe was the mother's breast. That is why breasts are so appealing. They
look beautiful; they attract, they have a magnetic force. That magnetic
force comes from your unconscious. That was the first thing with which you
came in contact, and the contact was lovely, it felt beautiful. It gives you
food, instant vitality, love, everything. The contact was soft, receptive,
inviting. It has remained so in the mind of man.
So I told that man, "Now I will give you the method." And this was the
method I gave him, to suck something and become the sucking. I told him,
"Just close your eyes. Imagine your mother's breasts or anybody's breasts
that you like. Imagine, and start sucking as if there is a real breast.
Start sucking." He started sucking. Within three days he was sucking so
fast, so madly, he became so much enchanted by it. He told me, "It has
become a problem -- I want to suck the whole day. And it is so beautiful,
and such deep silence is created by it."
Within three months the sucking became a very, very silent gesture. The
lips stopped, you couldn't even have judged that he was doing something. But
inner sucking had started. He was sucking the whole day. It became a mantra,
a JAPA -- a mantra repetition.
After three months he came to me and said, "Something strange is happening
to me. Something sweet is falling from my head onto my tongue continuously.
And it is so sweet and so energy filling that I do not need any food, there
is no hunger left. Eating has become just a formality. I take something in
order not to create any problems in the family. But something is
continuously coming to me. It is so sweet, life-giving."
I told him to continue. Three months more, and one day he came just mad,
dancing to me, and he said, "Sucking has disappeared, but I am a different
man. I am no more the same man who had come to you. Some door has opened
within me. Something has broken and there is no desire left. Now I do not
want anything -- not even God, not even MOKSHA -- liberation. I do not want
anything. Now everything is okay as it is. I accept it and I am blissful."
Try this. Just suck something and become the sucking. It may be helpful to
many because it is so basic.
This much for today.
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