There is a breathing exercise where you refine your breath until there is nothing. Until you can't even tell if you're breathing or not. Then the world stops and you enter the Way.
That refinement should be your everyday goal.
To Breathe without stopping is the Way. To Love without ending is the Way. These are the two poles of Life: Breath and Love. They are the way to All.
To breathe love is not enough. To be love is better.
It is far better to complete one practice than to attempt many in a half-hearted manner. Actually it is only through following a practice to its conclusion that one can find out what it really is and does. It is said that many people have come to enlightenment through doing just one practice to its fulfillment. The case of Swami Ramdas is one such example. He used the Ramnam: Om Sri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram.
In reality, it is not until one looks through the point of view of enlightenment and realization that one really knows what a practice does. From that knowing, one also can be aware of what other practices do with relative ease.
It is not important to know alot of practices. It is important to know and be oneself. From there, one can freely act.
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"He is wise who knows the Dharma; henceforward he pursues his independent way envying none." - Buddha
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There are simple statements which can point to a whole realm of practices. For example:"concentrate your breath and attention in your heart. Then concentrate your mind or eyes upon a symbol. You will become the meaning of the symbol."
This may actually take several months or years; or you could get it in a flash. Consider that there are many symbols and you have an idea as to how long it would take to apply this practice, in its aspects. Even working with some basic symbols such as crosses, stars, circle, triangle, square, sun, moon, crescent, heart, rose, could easily take two or three years.
In this work are several such examples. It is up to you to examine these sentences and see from where they come and to what they point.
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"I won't teach a man who is not eager to learn, nor will I explain to one incapable of forming his own ideas. Nor have I anything to say to those who, after I have made clear one corner of the subject, cannot deduce the other three." -Confucious.
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