| "THE MEDITATION OF THE HEART: This meditation is a difficult task; for it is not of the body, neither is it of the mind. It is not associated with chakra-concentration. It has nothing to do with the complexities of any school. It is not like any process in intellectualization. Its very simplicity is its difficulty. This meditation is a simple task: there is nothing about it that a child cannot do. Indeed by becoming as little children we may be more successful. The heart is heart and nothing else. Yet it is more than flesh, even more than feeling. The Master has always said, "Thus," whereupon the disciples have said " thus and thus," including their doctrines concerning the Master with the teachings of the Master. In every time, in every place have teachings and doctrines conflicted, so there has been turmoil, tribulation, warfare - so many doctrines, each opposing the others, all opposing the teachings. When shall we turn? When shall we return to the heart? When shall we resume the teachings and discard the doctrines? Let us turn, in silence let us turn to the heart, let us seek the secret asylum of the heart, for therein lies the city of refuge, great beyond conception, there is repose, there is salvation.
Seated in quiet comfort, laying aside woes and cares and problems, placing thoughts outside of consciousness, raising consciousness above thought, feel the love that emanates from the sun-centre of the heart. Feel this love, find this love, follow this love - that is all, that is the simplicity, the ever-so-easy meditation of the heart. Thus the baptism in the bosom of Christ, this is tauba. this is shuvo, this
is repentance, this is the Way toward Love." - S-A-M- .......... |
THE ACCIDENT:
There was a seeker of God who sat in the street doing his daily practices. Along came a woman who, engrossed, tripped over the aspirant. The monk cried out in anger, "Stupid woman, can you not see that I am in the road? I deserve great respect and merit, for I am a seeker of the Beloved." The woman replied, with honest contriteness, "Oh, I am so sorry, I was on my way to the house of my fiancée and all my thoughts were on him, to the extent that I noticed nothing else."
What way Buddha Breath? Chant: GATE (Pronounced gatay) GATE, PARAGATE, PARASAMGATE, BODHISVAHA. Go. Go. Go beyond. Go beyond even the beyond. To oneself. Be. Breath taken in, breath released, Be. Sound taken in, sound released, Be. Heart taken in, taken in heart, Be. Sound. Feel.
| "INCHANT: "GOOD" a sound is heard / also is self-made / a pre sound heard / initiates the inner life. We approve of us. There must be some deep reason for this. INsing some silent word on breaths. "what word"? any word is good as you make it so. Perhaps Good or Good, GOOD, GOOD, - Reps .......... |
What is it on which one can depend? Light to light, heart to heart, sense to sense within, without, one knows. Do You know? You do know. Know - you do. You know you do. Listen. Know. Do.
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"Love" is a word of many meanings because love itself has as many phases as there are grades or consciousness. Now, consciousness is the divine life in us, and the Particular phase of consciousness we are "in" at any moment of time is determined by the degree of our awareness or that life which, in turn, determines the quality of our love.
A realization of this is necessary to any understanding of the mystery of love, of all mysteries most profound: a bottomless abyss, a heaven piercing peak, and at the same time a "path" from that depth to that height which everyone must tread - for the path of love is not other than the path or life. " - Claude Bragdon |