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How to Be Free | Osho on Krishna, Buddha and You

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Osho Quote on Krishna, Buddha and You

How to Be Free 

Today I would like to share with you an excerpt from Mystic Master Osho, in which he urges you to just be yourself, be original and follow your heart’s whispers.  It is always inspiring to visit the teachings of the masters from time to time, as I find the vibrations of their words and insights to often be catalysts for spontaneous and sudden inner transformation.  I hope you find the words below to be equally inspiring, liberating and transforming.

Free Osho on Krishna, Buddha

Osho Quote on Krishna, Buddha and You:

Book: Courage – The Joy of Living Dangerously

The whole art for the new humanity will consist in the secret of listening to the heart consciously, alertly, attentively.  And follow it, to wherever it takes you.  Yes, sometimes it will take you into dangers – but remember, those dangers are needed to make you ripe.  Sometimes it will take you astray – but remember again, those goings astray are part of growth.  Many times you will fall – rise up again, because this is how one gathers strength, by falling and rising again.  This is how one become integrated.

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Never be an imitator, be always original.  Don’t become a carbon copy.  But that’s what is happening all over the world – carbon copied and carbon copies.

Life is really a dance if you are an original – and you are meant to be an original.  Just look how different Krishna is from Buddha.  If Krishna had followed Buddha, we would have missed one of the most beautiful men of this earth.  Or if Buddha had followed Krishna, he would have been just a poor specimen.  Just think of Buddha playing on the flute! – he would have disturbed many peoples sleep, he was not a flute player.  Just think of Buddha dancing; it looks so ridiculous, just absurd.

And the same is the case for Krishna.  Sitting underneath a tree with no flute, with no crown of peacock feathers, with no beautiful clothes – just sitting like a beggar under a tree with closed eyes, nobody dancing around him, nothing of the dance, nothing of the song – and Krishna would look so poor, so impoverished.  A Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you.  And you are not in any way less than anybody else.  Respect yourself, respect your inner voice and follow it.

And remember, I am not guaranteeing you that it will always lead your to the right.  Many times it will take you to the wrong, because to come to the right door one has to knock first on many wrong doors.  That’s how it is.  If you suddenly stumble upon the right door, you will not be able to recognize that it is right.  So remember in the ultimate reckoning no effort is ever wasted; all efforts contribute to the ultimate climax of your growth.

Analysis of Osho Quote on Krishna, Buddha and You:

There are few points I want to highlight from the above excerpt which I think are very helpful to one’s spiritual evolution.

1. Embrace the Unknown:

Hidden in the above message, is the profound guidance that you should be open to life and be willing to go where she wants to take you.  That is what it means to follow your heart.  It means to not always take the safe, secure route, but be willing to try new things and new adventures, despite having no guarantees of success. 

This will allow you to move into the new, and not be imprisoned by the insecurities of the ego.  For the ego is of the past and is ever seeking security and safety.  So to move into the new, is to move into life, is to move into insecurity,  it is to move into the now, it is to move away from the entrapments of the petty self, and ultimately you will discover, that it is to move into love. 

Be open to going with the flow, else you will stagnate and be dead, even while being alive.

2. You are not less:

This is really a remarkable lesson to learn and fully embracing this Truth is liberating and empowering.  Don’t compare or try to be like anyone, you are unique and wonderful, just come into your own.  Just be yourself.  Then everything you do will come from the depths of your being.  You will contribute in your own unique way.  That is the responsibility of those who have tasted the Truth.  To contribute to spreading the light in their own way and in their own words.  As Krishnamurti advises those who are teachers and spiritual guides, “You Speak.”  That is enough.

As Ramana Maharishi points you, feeling incomplete is the essence of the problem and this incompleteness has its roots in comparison.  Comparison between you and the “great ones” and comparisons between “what is” and “what should be”.  This is the root cause of missing the inherent perfection of the here and now.  The answer is to simply let go.

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How to Do Advanced Jyana Yoga Meditation Videos | Silent Mind Meditation

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Advanced Meditation Videos

Advanced Gyan Yoga Technique

The advanced Jyana Yoga (yoga of intelligence and insight) meditation vidoes below are a detailed discussion of the seven steps used by the Silent Mind Meditation Technique to bring about the cessation of thoughts and the explosion of insight.  Another videos series will also be uploaded soon, which is a general discussion of this technique, which can be considered the most advanced form of Jyana (Gyan) Yoga and is based on the Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhist concepts of nomind, end of knowledge and negation (neti).  This technique, as I have pointed out before, is an extension of the work done by J. Krishnamurti and is in my view, the ultimate meditation for Self Realization.

You are going to notice a flurry of activity on Mastery of Meditation and Yoga with regard to meditation, as my long term vision of offering a comprehensive multi-media meditation teacher’s certification program is nearing completion.  Although, I don’t expect mastery of the advanced technique described here as necessary for certification, I do feel it is important for authentic meditation teachers to understand this approach and have a feel for what it entails.  This technique is ultimately a life long practice of moment to moment awareness.

A great many benefits that meditation bestows can be achieved with more basic techniques, that I have already detailed on the website previously, and of course, knowing them is part of the training program.  But to encounter the state of mind described by Sage Patanjali as the still mind or Samadhi, or the Zen state of Satori or Nomind, this technique is the best.  Therefore I consider this one of the highest forms of Gyan Yoga.

Advanced Jyana Yoga

The Silent Mind Meditation (SM for short) is not really complex.  It can be described in one line.  Comprehending the mind is action from moment to moment, via direct perception.  Even doing it is not complicated, but it requires great energy, awareness and tenacity.  In the 2 part video series below, I explain the 7 steps which I wrote about in chapter 12 of the Silent Mind Meditation Program, the Silent Mind Meditations.  What I hope, is for you to once catch a glimpse of the “Fact in Action”.  See the actuality of the beast of desire, the fact of desire.  It is mind blowing when you do.  And if you can do it even one time, you will realize a human potential that you have to comprehending the fact directly, not just intellectually, and this will open up a new way of observing for you.  All us humans have this potential, but very few develop it.  Developing it leads to transcendence.

I expect those taking the certification program, or those who are serious about meditation and Self Realization, to have questions about this technique.  That is natural and healthy and I feel, since this is perhaps a new approach and subtle in nature, discussing it in many different ways is helpful in deepening your understanding regarding it.  Once you understand completely what this technique is all about, you will have understood completely everything there is to understand (see the article Asking the Right Questions for more on this topic).  After such understanding, you will have no more questions left.  For a Gyan Yogi, mastering this technique and approach, should be the highest goal.

Below is a 2 part series where I am discussing the 7 steps needed to practice this most advanced Gyan Yoga meditation, the Silent Mind Meditation technique.  Also, to read how these steps equate to Sage Patanjali’s steps of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi, please read the following article Most Advanced Mind Meditation Technique.   For those who have inquired already about getting certified for teaching meditation, please be on the lookout for the teacher’s training program that will be coming online in the next week or so.

The videos regarding the general discussion of Silent Mind Meditations that I allude to in the videos below, will be uploaded soon as well.

7 Steps of How to Do Advanced Jyana Yoga Meditation (SM – Part 1)

 

7 Steps of How to Do Advanced Jyana Yoga Meditation (SM – Part 2)

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True Definition of Meditation – Take the Test

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Defining Meditation

What is Meditation

There are many ways to understand and define what meditation is, and today I want to present to you the highest and purest way of looking at this most important of human phenomenon.  Understanding meditation via many different angles and approaches deepens your understanding about this sublime activity, and given that meditation holds the key to Heaven, it is essential that you encounter the Truth of meditation in this life of yours.  Below you will find the great spiritual master J. Krishnamurti explain what meditation is in his own words.  Following the excerpt I will provide some analysis and thoughts on this definition of his.

True Definition of Meditation

J. Krishnamurti Gives Definition of Meditation

Author: J. Krishnamurti

Book: Meditations

Page: 35-36

Meditation is the flowering of understanding.  Understanding is not within the borders of time; time never brings understanding.  Understanding is not a gradual process to be gathered little by little, with care and patience; understanding is now or never; it is a destructive flash, not a tame affair; it is this shattering that one is afraid of and so one avoids it, knowingly or unknowingly.  Understanding may alter the course of one’s life, the way of thought and action; it may be pleasant or not but understanding is a danger to all relationship.  But without understanding, sorrow will continue.  Sorrow ends only through self-knowing, the awareness of every thought and feeling, every movement of the conscious and that which is hidden.  Meditation is the understanding of consciousness, the hidden and the open, and of the movement that lies beyond all thought and feeling.

Definition of Meditation Analysis:

Let’s discuss this differently today, let’s do it in the form of questions. This will give you a chance to think things over for yourself and thus, lay the foundation for real understanding to take place.  Ready to be tested ?

Question #1. Does meditation have an ending?

Answer:

This is important to understand.  Meditation is a process of self-knowing.  It is forever, it does not have any ending.  In other words, it is the constant light which reveals the activities of the mind and ego.  So don’t think of meditation as an effort to reach some goal.  Make awareness of your inner and outer environment the goal itself.  This moment to moment awareness of “what is”, brings the flowering of understanding, which is what meditation is, and takes you beyond.

Question #2. Does Meditation occur on earth or heaven? 

In other words, does meditation take place in our ordinary dualistic world, or does it take place in the non-dual world of enlightenment (Nirvana, Moksha, etc)?

Answer:

The answer is both.  Meditation starts with simple awareness of the confused, groping, dualistic, petty, selfish mind, and as this mind diminishes and withers due to the light of awareness, meditation starts to move into the dimension which lies beyond.  This is revealed by the last line of the excerpt above. 

Another article, more focused on this aspect of meditation is What is Meditation by J. Krishnamurti.

Question #3. Why Meditate?

Answer:

I have written many articles that point out the great benefits of meditation.  You will find a list of these below, but the answer is really quite simple.  The only way to end sorrow is meditation.  Nothing else will do it, as everything else in within the sphere is thought, and all that which is within the sphere of thought, ends in sorrow.  This is the First Noble Truth of Lord Buddha.  The only way to be free of that sphere, is through meditation.

If freedom from suffering is not motivation enough, here are some articles detailing other side benefits of meditation to get you motivated and started.

Health Benefits of Meditation

Top 10 Profound Benefits of Meditation

Homework for Understanding Meditation:

The only way to really understand what is being said with regard to the “explosion of insight” that meditation brings, is by experiencing it for yourself.  This is my greatest wish for you, that you experience and therefore see the truth of what meditation is, and experience the subsequent shift in consciousness that takes place.  So don’t delay in experimenting and exploring this gift of meditation.  For this coming weekend, try as best you can to be aware of each thought and feeling that takes place, and try to understand the story behind each.  I know that is almost impossible to do, but just do the best you can.  That way you will be fulfilling your true purpose here on Earth, which is to practice self-knowing and move beyond the ordinary dualistic mind.  That way you will discover Heaven on Earth.

For more information on this process of meditation and the explosion of insight, you can also read the following 2 articles.

Mind Meditation | Most Advanced Meditation Technique

Silent Mind Meditation Technique

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5 Keys to Stop Procrastination

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How to Stop Procrastinating

Recently I received an email from a reader who requested help on how to stop procrastination, as this was causing him innumerable problems in life.  Procrastination, as we all probably know, can affect our lives negatively at many levels.  It can prevent us from moving ahead in the manifested world, as well as certainly prevent us from breaking free from the endless stream of ego centric thoughts and desires in the spiritual world.  So in this article I would like to share with you some of the tips I gave him, and expand on the spiritual aspect of this important topic as well.

Stop Procrastination

1-2.  Energy & Character:

The first 2 keys for putting an end to procrastination is Energy and Character.  I have bundled them together because there exists an excellent solution which helps with both these issues.  Essentially, our energy comes from our core region which is governed by the Third Chakra (Navel or Solar Pluxes Chakra), and this very same chakra is also responsible for building our character and willpower.  So one of the first things to do, in order to break free from the habit of procrastination, is to work on this center.

Below, let me give you several great options for developing your core energy and balancing the Navel Chakra.  I suggest to rotate the sets that are given and to include the Breathing exercise as well for maximum benefit.  The body, especially muscles, get acclimatized to repetitive routines over time, so change ups are necessary to challenge and thus insure continuous muscle development and physical improvement.

Abdominal Set 1:

Core Abdominal Power Yoga Exercises

Abdominal Set 2:

Ab Yoga Exercises to Shape and Tone Stomach

Pranayama Set to Develop Third Chakra and Overall Energy:

Kapalbhati Pranayama for Optimum Health

The above combination will prove to be very potent in developing your core energy and developing your character. 

3. Mood Mastery:

The other factor which often engenders procrastination is the inability to do what needs to be done because of mood.  You simply feel lazy or are not in the mood, so you procrastinate.  The number one technique for helping you master your mood and do what needs to be done right away is without a doubt, Zen Meditation or Zazen practice.  This practice is very effective in teaching you how to live in the moment and perform the action required by life at that given moment.  The ideal practice to achieve this mastery I have found to be 20 minutes, 2 times per day.  Here is the link to this profound technique:

Zen Meditation Technique – Zazen

4. Momentum:

Another key, I want to mention is the role that momentum plays in breaking the habit of procrastination.  What I have found is that the more I do in time, the easier it gets to continue this approach and attitude.  It is like a snowball affect, where getting started in the hardest part, and then it gets easier as you build momentum.

5. Don’t Try to Do Things Perfectly – The Golden Rule:

The final key is really very important to helping you break this habit (thanks for the reminder Debra ).  In fact it is so important that I call it my Golden Rule.  It is the 70% rule, which says that don’t try to do things perfectly, instead if you can do them even 70% of max that is fine, just begin.  I have written about this previously in the ever popular article The Golden Rule to Stop Excuses and Start Meditation Now.  The benefit of this attitude should not be underestimated, it has helped me accomplish a great deal in life, including this very blog .

Importance of Urgency:

Procrastination essentially means that there is a lack of urgency, and to break through the false reality of dualistic thinking, urgency is a must and procrastination is one of the biggest obstacles.  Time is not a factor for breaking through.  You can do it right now, in fact you can only do it right now.  Thinking in terms of time is illusionary and false.  Psychological time is a fabrication of thinking and has no reality, so what must be done, must be done right now.  So if you want to transform, transform now. 

Here are 2 articles where I discuss this in greater depth:

Insight Meditation Tips – The Power of Urgency

Silent Mind Meditation Program – Chapter 11 – Urgency

To inspire you further, here are J. Krishnamurti’s own words on stopping procrastination and breaking free:

Be a light to yourself. Stop procrastination. Throw away the content of consciousness. There has to be pure consciousness, pure awareness, pure listening.

It’s Now or Never.

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5 Excellent Yoga Tips to Elevate Your Practice

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Simple Yoga Tips

Improving Your Yoga Practice

Previously, in the series Clever Yoga Tips for Busy People, I gave some handy tips on how to incorporate some useful yoga techniques into your everyday life.  These included doing the wonderful Kapalbhati Pranayama for Weight Loss and Health while walking or driving, and doing Toe Touches (Padahast Asana) while in the shower.  But, today I want to share with your some very good tips which you can easily integrate right into your yoga routine, in order to get a whole lot more out of it.  After all, you are doing your practice anyway, might as well get the most out of the time you spend on the mat.

Elevate Your Practice

These simple yoga tips will help you awaken your Third Eye, release stress, increase the vibration of you energy, heal better, improve concentration and also help you develop the great yogic mind or witnessing consciousness.  So let’s get started…

5 Simple Yoga Tips to Enhance Your Yoga Practice:

Yoga Tip #1.

Practicing Mula Bandha – Root Lock:

Apply root lock at the end of any exercise(s).  To apply root lock, once you are done with your exercise, sit up straight, inhale deeply, then exhale completely and holding your breath out pull your rectum, sex organ and lower navel muscles up and in.  Hold these three muscles up and in as tight as you are comfortable doing with your breath held out.  When you need to, release this lock and inhale.  Then repeat two more times for maximum benefit.

Mula Bandha or Root Lock is excellent for activating the three lower chakras (root, sex and navel chakras), and it has the added benefit of redirecting energy generated by the previous exercise(s) back into the spine for further use by the body.  I strongly suggest using this tip to help raise the level of your energy and level of your practice.

Yoga Tip #2.  

Adding Relaxation Periods:

After doing a few exercises (and now after applying Mula Bandha ), take a minute or so to relax.  This relaxation period, whether done on your back, sitting or even standing is very important to give the body a chance to assimilate the energy that is now circulating as a result of the previous work.

During this relaxation period, the body rejuvenates, heals and charges itself, especially in the regions that were targeted by the previous poses and postures.  When doing this relaxation on your back, use yoga corpse pose and if doing it while sitting try to keep your back straight.  In addition, just do long deep slow breathing during this relaxation time, which helps deepen the level of relaxation.  This practice is also excellent for stress and anxiety relief.

Yoga Tip #3:

Practicing Shambhavi Mudra:

As you start to sprinkle the relaxation periods into your workouts, you can enhance their value further by adding the following aspect to it, Shambhavi Mudra.  This is to turn your eyes upwards, while closed and look through the center of your forehead.  This is called Shambhavi Mudra, and it helps stimulate and activate the Third Eye or Ajna Chakra.

The Third Eye is the seat of intuition and awakening this center is a key aspect of making progress in yoga and kundalini awakening.  Shambhavi Mudra is a very useful technique in this regard.  One important caution with regard to applying this mudra, is to apply it for only as long as comfortable and releasing it when you feel you need to (and applying it again when ready).  In other words, don’t over strain your eyes when practicing this mudra.

One final note with regard to this tip, is that you can use Shambhavi Mudra during the active portions of your practice as well, whenever the opportunity presents itself.  So when holding certain postures or during certain movement, apply the mudra as best as you can.  If applying the mudra is difficult, then you can just bring your attention to the Third Eye region, without the mudra, as that too will help stimulate the activate this important center.

Yoga Tip #4:

Practicing SAT NAM Mantra:

Another excellent way to enhance the relaxation period more and use it to develop your concentration and spiritual energy is to mentally chant a mantra while in relaxation.  This is also perfectly compatible with practicing Shambhavi Mudra and therefore can be done in conjunction with that mudra in place as well.

Mantras of the nature of SAT NAM work very well during these periods, where you think the sound SAT as you inhale slowly and think the sound NAM as you exhale.  SAT NAM is a fundamental mantra which means True Identity or True Self, and practicing it helps you journey back to your infinite, divine nature.

Again, if during the active portions of your practice, the opportunity is there to do mantra work, you can integrate it in and thus get more out of the session.

Yoga Tip #5:

Developing Witnessing Consciousness – Yogic Mind:

This is not just a tip, but I feel should be an essential part of your practice and I although I have included in the important Beginner’s Guide to Yoga Practice, I would like to remind everyone of this very important aspect of yoga practice here, which is that you should do your entire practice with full awareness.  The purpose of yoga is to develop your witnessing consciousness or Yogic Mind, and the best way to develop this mind is by constant awareness of the here and now.

So watch your mind, body, breath and feelings with as much awareness as you can muster right though your session.  Then your yoga pracitce will actually become meditation in motion.  When this witnessing aspect matures, there will no doer, just doing taking place.  This is why when people would watch masters like J. Krishnamurti do yoga, they would say that it is like there is no personality there, just yoga being done.  So aspire for that level of awareness, where it is so complete, that the thoughts required to assert the sense of separate identity do not have the opportunity to rise.  This is then real yoga.  This is Unity.

More Meditation & Yoga Tips:

For more meditation and yoga tips you can head over to the following articles:  Essential Tips and Tools for Daily Meditation Practice, Meditation Help & Tips for Beginners and 3 Simple Tips to Invite Enlightenment. 

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Best Spiritual Books

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Best Books for Spiritual Growth

List of Best Spiritual Books  

 
In the article, 3 Simple Tips to Inviting Enlightenment, one of the tips for attracting enlightenment experiences was reading great spiritual books.  Although, these suggestions came from personal experience, comments scattered throughout the blog have confirmed that these techniques have worked for others as well.  Below are examples of such testimonials with regard to enlightenment experiences taking place simply on account of reading great books on spirituality. 

Books

The goal of this article is to compile a list of the best spiritual books out there and this will require your help to do .

 

Readers Experiences Just from Reading Spiritual Books:

Mahesh Says:

I got and read some books regarding enlightenment.  Now I feel same like Anmol.  I did not do even a continuous meditation.  I got kundalini pressure in my spine too.  I got only love, all other are same like before. Happiness but no reason. I have told to my wife.

You know, I feel more happy and I never felt before.

 

Malini (who had spontaneous Kindalini Awakening simply from reading), says:

My question is: “is it possible to have the awakening without any effort?”  Because I never tried or wanted that. I even never heard of Kundalini.  Only thing which I think might have contributed to it was resigning from my job (from World Health Organization) and sitting at home and reading Bhagawat Gita. Though I don’t know whether I did that consciously.  It was very unlike me.

Stewart says:

Anyway after my friend left, for about the next two weeks i started reading my bible and borrowed an old cassette tape with songs on… On a sunny day in April 1994, i was walking throw a park listening to this tape, the song was ”Breath of God Breathe on Me” as i listened to this acappella song and the harmony unity in all the singing, something inside me broke, gave up, i started crying and as i did i was suddenly overwhelmed with this amazing love, heat, and i felt something travel up through and out of top of my head. For the next 3 weeks or so, i felt this burning ball of energy in my navel/stomach area, and was in love with everything, i mean a deep divine love and i felt so pure.

Nyporter says:

(I get) Intense pressure/energy in crown head area when in temples/religious places and reading religious scriptures.

Best Spiritual Books:

One of the best aspects of blogs and the internet is that the sharing of knowledge and resources can take place so easily, and my hope is that in this article and thread we can share with each other what books we have found to be helpful with regard to spiritual evolution. These can be books on spirituality, meditation, yoga, God, enlightenment, religion, anything at all which you have found was helpful to your spiritual growth.  This way we can compile a very useful resource of the best spiritual books, which can then be used by others to accelerate their own progress. 
 
To that end, I would like to share with you some books on spirituality and meditation which were instrumental in helping me on my own spiritual journey.  Although, this can be a long list, I want to give you a few of those which I found to be the very best.
 
If you are interested in getting these books, make sure you search for them on the web first as some are freely available as online e-books.  If you want to purchase them, you can use my quick links at the bottom of the article.
 
Best Spiritual Books:
  • Think on These Things – J. Krishnamurti (other books by JK are great too)
  • Krishnamurti’s Notebook – J. Krishnamurti
  • Courage, The Joy of Living Dangerously – Osho (other books by Osho are great too)
Best Books on Advaita Vedanta (Non-dualism):
  • I Am That – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • Ease of Being – Jean Klein
Best Books on Zen Buddhism:
  • Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind – Shunryu Suzuki
  • Everyday Zen, Love and Work – Charlotte Joko Beck
Best Books on Yoga & Tantra:
  • Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramhansa Yogananda
  • Aghora, At the Left Hand of God – Robert E. Svoboda

Best Spiritual Books Summary:

From the reader testimonials above, The Bible and the Bhagavad Gita have been mentioned as well,  which I am sure is not a surprise .  So what other books have you found to be great?  What other books do you feel you were lucky to come across and have been helpful to you in your spiritual and personal growth?  Which spiritual master pieces are your favorites and you feel should make the Best Spiritual Books List?  Please do share these with us in the comments section below.  

If you are interested in purchasing any of these books from Amazon, you will find easy and quick links on this page using my affiliate account .  Thanks and Happy Reading!

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Psychic & Clairvoyant Powers & Abilities | Free Comprehensive Development Guide

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Developing Psychic Powers & Abilities

Free Guide for Psychic Readers & Clairvoyants

Welcome to the free comprehensive guide for psychic readers and clairvoyants to develop their psychic powers and abilities.  This guide is the combined document from the 2 part series on Developing Psychic Powers and has been created for ease of bookmarking and linking.  Here are the links to the original articles of this series: 4 Free Online Psychic & Development Techniques & Patanjali’s Samyama | Best Tool for Psychic Development.

Psychic & Clairvoyant Powers

Below you will find the contents of part 1 and part 2 combined.

(Part 1)

 

Free Tools for Psychics & Psychic Readers

Free Online Techniques for Psychic Abilities & Clairvoyance

Recently I have received a great deal of requests regarding the development of psychic powers and psychic abilities.  Some, I imagine are from psychics and clairvoyants looking to enhance their abilities for professional reasons, while others are form those curious about psychic powers and yoga siddhis.  Although, I suggest you don’t get overly attached to the acquisition of such paranormal and clairvoyant powers, the topic is certainly fascinating and one that is undoubtedly best understood by the science of yoga.

I have written previously about the Right Approach to the Development of Psychic Powers, so I suggest reading that article to understand how to avoid getting distracted by yoga siddhis (powers) on your road to enlightenment.  That article also discusses the right use of such powers.

In this series I am going to provide the science behind the acquisition of clairvoyant, paranormal and psychic abilities.  These abilities are used quite a bit now by those offering a wide range of psychic services, both for free and as a profession.  Those offering psychic readings, whether online, over the phone or in person, psychic predictions, psychic advise, psychic mediums, etc, etc, all rely on the application of specifically such clairvoyant powers in some degree or another.

Does Psychic & Clairvoyant Phenomenon Exist?

Although I really doubt that there are so many master psychics running around doing psychic chat readings, being online love gurus, doing phone readings, etc, in yogic literature there is ample evidence of the existence and successful acquisition of psychic powers.  In addition, when enlightened masters of the caliber of a J. Krishnamurti, whose approach is absolutely intelligent, pure and unemotional, hints at events and situations that can only have paranormal explanations, it gets very difficult to reject the existence of such phenomenon.  Also, there are the accounts of readers who have acquired psychic healing abilities, and clairvoyance via the techniques that I have previously published.  Finally, I have am own encounters with the paranormal, some of which I will go into in this series as well.  So, no doubt such powers exist and can be acquired, so let’s delve into the exercises and methods which help in the development of such psychic energy.

Definition of a Clairvoyance:

The techniques I will provide in this article series are mostly for the development of the psychic power of clairvoyance.  In other articles I will provide yogic and other techniques for the development of other psychic powers. 

What is Clairvoyance? It is primarily the power used by psychic readers, psychic advisers, psychic predictors and such.  Clairvoyance is technically the power to see clearly.  In the context of psychic phenomenon, it is the power to see without or beyond the use of the ordinary senses.  So the power to see far away both in time and distance, the power of sensitivity beyond the ordinary range of perception, and the power of keen intuition are all abilities that come under the umbrella of clairvoyance.

4 Free Techniques for Psychics & Clairvoyants:

1. AUM Mantra Meditation Technique:

As I explained above, clairvoyance is the ability to see without or beyond the normal eye, and another way to define it, is that it is the ability to see with the astral eye.  The astral eye, or Third Eye is the Sixth Chakra of the Kundalini Yoga System.  You can get more information about the chakra system in the following two articles: Kundalini Yoga Seven Chakra System & Analyze, Heal and Balance Your Chakras.  Essentially, opening the Third Eye gives birth to the power of Clairvoyance and Intuitive Knowledge.  Or put another way, it gives one the power to see the unseen and know the unknown.

The following article describes in detail a powerful technique with which to open the Third Eye. The article includes a video demonstration along with guidelines to help you practice this technique safely and successfully.  So if you are a practicing psychic looking to enhance your powers of clairvoyance and intuition, or if you are generally interested in exploring psychic abilities, then this technique is certainly worth exploring.

AUM Mantra Meditation for Psychic Powers

2-4. Samyama Techniques for Clairvoyance by Sage Patanjali:

In the next part of the series I will go into the famous Yoga Sutras of Sage Patanjali and explain what Samyama is, and how psychics can use it specifically to develop their powers of clairvoyance and intuitive readings.

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Sage Patanjali’s Samyama Explained

Tools for Psychic Readers & Clairvoyants

The title for this post should actually read, #1 Tool for the Development of Psychic Powers period.  In other words, not only is samyama the key to the development of clairvoyance, the basic ability used by psychic readers, psychic mediums, intuitives, clairvoyants, etc, it is also the key to the acquisition of any psychic ability.  Samyama is a term that comes from Sage Patanjali’s famous Yoga Sutras and there he describes in detail which psychic abilities (yoga siddhis) can be attained via the practice of samyama.  Before I go ahead and explain samyama and how to use it to develop psychic powers though, I would first like to iterate an important point I also made in part 1 of this series.

In part 1, 4 Free Online Psychic & Clairvoyant Development Tools, I indicated that the acquisition of psychic powers as a primary goal in life, servers as nothing more than a distraction from the work you are actually here to do, which is Self Realization.  So be warned that attachment to psychic powers and their use for ego enhancement or other material gain, just means more bondage to the world of duality and delusion.  Please note that this does not mean that psychic powers in and of themselves are bad or negative, it just means that attachment to them or exclusive pursuit of them, is not the purpose of life and can easily turn into another obstacle for you.  I have gone over this is more detail in the following article as well – The Right Way to Acquire Psychic Powers.

Patanjali’s Samyama Explained:

In Sage Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, samyama is described as the concurrent practice of the finals 3 aspects of Raja Yoga.  For more details on Raja Yoga and the 8 Limbs of Yoga, please read Introduction to the Universal Principles of Yoga.  Samyama, thus is the simultaneous application of Dharana, Dhayana & Samadhi, towards an object of attention.

Individually, these three states mean the following.  Dharana meaning concentration, Dhayana meaning meditation and Samadhi meaning non-dual absorption.  So samyama is the practice of these 3 actions together.

With regard to the development of psychic energy and specific psychic powers, samyama is the practice of these 3 actions directed towards a particular object.  The object of samyama then determines the powers acquired, as that object then reveals it’s secrets to the practitioner or mastery is gained over the realm which that object rules over.  For the purpose of this series, I will detail the objects for samyama specifically useful to psychic readers, clairvoyants, spiritual mediums, etc.  And in the future, if there is interest, I will detail how to practice samyama for other paranormal powers.

Before I go into where to place your attention for developing or enhancing clairvoyance, I want to first give you a nice way to understand samyama better, as that is the key to psychic development in the first place.

Understanding Samyama Practice:

For astute readers, the Zen Story – Beauty & the Art of Meditation, is giving an example of what samyama is.  In that story Zen monk Tara performs samyama on the tree.  She concentrates on it (dharana), gives her continuous unbroken attention to it (dhayana) and finally hears the story from the tree itself, when she merges with it (samadhi).  So this is one way to practice samyama.  You can also do so with a flower.  

Concentrate on the flower, allow your mind to be fully involved with the flower at all levels first.  Then let this concentration deepen to where other thoughts are no longer interfering with your attention towards the flower, and finally lose yourself to the actuality of the flower completely.

My early experience with samyama, came during walking meditation.  I would attend to the act of walking with complete awareness.  Such awareness, led me through the stages of dhayana, dharana and finally samadhi, and I suggest this technique for you as well to experiment with it you like.  One final note I will make, is that when you enter a state of oneness (samadhi) with the object, it is not like a normal state of mind.  You will know.  It will be quite amazing, full of bliss, outside the realm of your ordinary senses and certainly a paranormal experience for sure.

Psychic Development with Samyama:

Now getting back to psychic development with samyama.  In part 1, I indicated the use of the AUM Mantra Meditation for the development of psychic abilities, and stated that the next 3 would come from Sage Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.  So here are techniques number 2-4, all of which use the practice of samyama for the development of clairvoyant powers.

Techniques 2-3 both deal with samyama on light.  This is primarily because the power of clairvoyance (or clear seeing), deals with the element of light and the astral eye (Third Eye, Ajna Chakra).  Technique #4 is more advanced.

Technique #2 for Clairvoyance & Psychic Development:

Samyama on the light at the crown of the head (sahasrara chakra) leads to visions of masters and psychic adepts.  This practice will also lead to the development of clairvoyance and can be practiced by psychics looking to enhance their overall ability to see past the ordinary and can be useful to psychic mediums as well.  For more information on the chakra system, and sahasrara chakra please read – Kundalini Seven Chakra System.

Technique #3 for Clairvoyance & Psychic Development:

Very similar to technique #2, and also dealing with the element of light is the practice of samyama on the light within.  Here again, Sage Patanjali points out that oneness with this light, will bestow to the adept the power of knowing that which is hidden, subtle or remote.  The light within is often experienced during meditation and kundalini awakening.  You can read more about that in the article: Kundalini Awakening Sysmtoms.

Technique #4 for Clairvoyance & Psychic Development:

The final object for samyama dealing with the development of psychic ability, is more complicated than the above 2, which simply deal with the element of light.  In this sutra, Sage Patanjali indicates that samyama on the inter-relationship between the power of perception, the purpose of the sense organs and the ego, bestows the necessary mastery.

Here not only is the power of clairvoyance gained, but in having mastery over the manifested world, the power of movement at the speed of thoughts and the ability to function without the sense organs is also achieved.

Tools for Psychic Readers & Clairvoyants Summary:

Before I end this series, I wanted to point out one more technique which is highly reputed for bestowing psychic powers, and, for those familiar with this website, that is of course, Sodarshan Chakra Kriya – The Most Powerful Pranayama.  Sodarshan Chakra Kriya, like Psychic Development Technique #4 above, is known for bestowing a wide range of psychic abilities, so it is not just limited to clairvoyance and those interested in psychic readings and other psychic services.

Finally, I would like to end this series with a reminder about the place of psychic powers in the grand scheme of things.  They, like all other material acquisitions, can lead to ego attachments, which are the downfall of anyone seeking Self Realization.  So if you are a psychic practitioner, a healer, reader, clairvoyant, etc, please keep this in mind, and remember that the true purpose of life, and the real end to suffering, comes only with God Realization.

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Is Mindfulness Meditation Right for You? | An Excellent Test to Find Out

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Mindfulness Meditation

Test for Mindfulness Meditation

The highest form of mindfulness meditation is the awareness of each thought that arises and falls in the mind.  This technique has been the method of many enlightened masters in the past and continues to be the technique of choice for those who are inclined towards Insight Meditation, Mind Meditation, Zen Meditation or Gyan Yoga.  As revealed in the epic article, Meditation Techniques, Types & Practice – A Comprehensive Guide, there are literally hundreds of meditation techniques and certainly Mindfulness Meditation is amongst one of the very best.  The question that does come up though, is how do you know if this type of meditation is right for you?

Meditation Right for You

Test for Mindfulness Meditation Suitability:

Here is a simple, but effective test to help you decide if mindfulness meditation, of the kind indicated above, is something which you are cut out for. 

Slowly and consciously count down from 50 to 0 mentally, and then back up from 0 to 50.  So mentally start from 50 and work your way down, 50, 49, 48, 47… and when you get to 0, start to work your way up, 0, 1, 2, 3… till you reach 50 again.

If you are able to do this without losing your count and getting pulled into another train of thought then, generally speaking, you have a trained mind and the ability to focus well.  This means that mindfulness meditation, which requires such concentration, will certainly be suitable for you.  In other words, the technique of watching your thoughts, feelings and actions will come naturally to you and is one you can master in life.

If you have a very hard time with this test, it means that you will have to put in some extra effort in order to practice mindfulness meditation techniques.  It does not mean you should not try to develop these important traits of concentration and mental focus, it just means they may not come naturally to you and thus, will require some practice on your part to develop.  So mindfulness meditation will be a little more work for you, than for those who already have this power of concentration developed.

If you are interested in developing your power of concentration, then the yogic technique of Trataka will be excellent for you.  Here are the details for that meditation: Concentration Meditation Technique – Trataka.

J. Krishnamurti Quote on Mindfulness Meditation:

To give you an idea of how powerful and important such an approach is for enlightenment, here is a quote from the enlightened master meditator J. Krishnamurti about the power of mindfulness meditation and what it can do for you.  He uses the term “passive watchfulness” to describe the action of being aware or mindful of every thought and action.

The mind is empty only when thought is not. Thought cannot come to an end save through passive watchfulness of every thought. In this awareness there is no watcher and no censor; without the censor, there is only experiencing. In experiencing there is neither the experiencer nor the experienced. The experienced is the thought, which gives birth to the thinker. Only when the mind is experiencing is there stillness, the silence which is not made up, put together; and only in that tranquility can the real come into being. Reality is not of time and is not measurable.

More Mindfulness Meditation Resources & Links:

Here are some more links to help you develop your ability to watch your mind and thoughts, and develop the power of pure awareness.

Zen Story Regarding Mindfulness Meditation: The True Meaning of Laziness

Zen Meditation Technique with Video Demonstration

How to Meditate By Yourself – Zazen Practice

Beginner’s Mediation Class | Learn to Meditate

Silent Mind Meditation Technique (Advanced Insight Meditation)

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Best Mind Meditation | Most Advanced Meditation Technique

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Best Mind Meditation Technique

Most Advanced Yoga Meditation

Mastery of Meditation & Yoga now has almost 400 articles, detailing a wide range of simple and advanced yoga & meditation techniques, along with other insightful articles for helping you achieve your highest potential in life.   The techniques work on everything from your mind, body to spirit.  While some of these techniques are suitable for beginner’s others, are quite advanced and should be approached with respect and intelligence.  Of course, appropriate details are included in the respective articles, so you can design a personal program suitable to your level and capacity.

With regard to meditation specifically, the website has mind meditation techniques, mantra meditation techniques, yoga meditations, breath meditation, concentration meditations, etc, etc.  Given so many techniques have been detailed, I have tried many way to organize the website so that you can quickly and easily find the meditation technique suitable to you.  Towards this end, I have put together the Meditation Techniques article, where you will find selected meditations categorized by purpose, there is also of course the Free Online Guided Meditation E-book, which has video demonstrations along with written details, and there is also the meditation category and relevant sub-categories.  What this article is for, is to point out one specific meditation hidden amongst all the others.  This is a very powerful mind meditation technique and I consider it the best and most advanced meditation known to man.

Best Mind Meditation

Most Advanced Mind Meditation Technique

The meditation that I am referring to is the Silent Mind Meditation Technique.   I have explained the meditation in that chapter and don’t want to repeat that here, so please go through it there for the details of this meditation.  This meditation technique is really an extension of the work of J. Krishnamurti and is the meditation I stumbled upon during my early days of practice, more than 20 years ago now.  The Silent Mind Meditation Technique is an attempt to frame the art of mind meditation and make it easier to understand and especially, easier to practice.  It is essentially the process one goes through when one is watching the mind, and comprehending thoughts from moment to moment via direct perception.

The Silent Mind Meditation Technique is part of the overall Silent Mind Meditation Program, which has received stellar feedback by those of you with the passion and persistence to complete it.  This meditation though can certainly be practiced independently and can be integrated into any personal meditation program.  This is the meditation technique I practice till today.  It is the only direct approach to Enlightenment, explained in How to Attain Enlightenment.  When I wish for an indirect technique, the other mind meditation technique I practice is the Zen Meditation Technique or Zazen.

Understanding the Silent Mind Meditation Technique

When I first began working with the Silent Mind Meditation Technique, I was not involved deeply with yoga and was not intimately familiar with Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.  But, yesterday when I wrote the article on Samyama (Samyama & Psychic Development Tools) and was explaining how it is the concurrent application of Dharana (concentration), Dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi (absorption), it occurred to me suddenly that this is the very thing that I had discovered with the Silent Mind Meditation Technique, and that this was really the process I was trying to explain when I was creating the framework for this method.  Needless to say I was quite amused by this epiphany.

Here looking at the Silent Mind Meditation Technique from Sage Patanjali’s point of view.  

Silent Mind Meditation Steps 1, 2, 3 & 4 are Dharana or Concentration:

They require you to focus your mind unequivocally on the fact you have decided to pursue.  This is the concentration portion of the meditation.

Silent Mind Meditation Steps 4, & 5 are Dhyana or Meditation: 

Here I call it Crytallization, where Patanjali calls it unbroken flow of awareness.  This is the phase where you are, without missing a beat, comprehending directly the story behind each thought from moment to moment.  You will notice that step 4 is repeated here and is also a part of the mental concentration portion.  This is not a mistake, it is because Dharana continues into Dhyana.  In other words, concentration continues, even as comprehension (or insight) starts to flow.

Silent Mind Meditation Steps 6 & 7 are Samadhi or Enlightenment:

As Patanjali also explains, all you can do is Dharana & Dhyana, as Samadhi comes on it’s own.  So it is with the Silent Mind Meditation Technique, whereby intelligence starts to see, without a shadow of a doubt, that the source of all the problems is the mind itself.  This then leads the mind to negative itself from moment to moment, and what is left then, is unadulterated Silence, Truth and Absolute Reality.  Put it another way, the mind stills itself of thoughts, so that awareness is then able to shift to that which is beyond time, space and duality.

Summary of Best Mind Meditation Technique:

Another epiphany that just took place, is that Sage Patanjali defines the objective of Yoga as the science to still the mind of thoughts.  Well, in that case the Silent Mind Meditation Techniques is true Yoga, for it is the process of mind meditation which leads to this very state.  The state of having no waves in the mind.  When the mind is not, the projected reality is not, then that which is, IS.

If you have undertaken the practice of the Silent Mind Meditation Technique and are having difficulties, do check out the Hints and Tips Chapter of the Silent Mind Meditation Program.  Finally, as I have tagged this as the most advanced meditation and best of all mind meditations, it is unlikely you will master it overnight, so give it some time and stick to it.  The rewards are indescribable.

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4 Free Online Psychic & Clairvoyant Development Techniques

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Free Tools for Psychics & Psychic Readers

Free Online Techniques for Psychic Abilities & Clairvoyance

Recently I have received a great deal of requests regarding the development of psychic powers and psychic abilities.  Some, I imagine are from psychics and clairvoyants looking to enhance their abilities for professional reasons, while others are form those curious about psychic powers and yoga siddhis.  Although, I suggest you don’t get overly attached to the acquisition of such paranormal and clairvoyant powers, the topic is certainly fascinating and one that is undoubtedly best understood by the science of yoga.

I have written previously about the Right Approach to the Development of Psychic Powers, so I suggest reading that article to understand how to avoid getting distracted by yoga siddhis (powers) on your road to enlightenment.  That article also discusses the right use of such powers.

Online Psychic & Clairvoyant Development

In this series I am going to provide the science behind the acquisition of clairvoyant, paranormal and psychic abilities.  These abilities are used quite a bit now by those offering a wide range of psychic services, both for free and as a profession.  Those offering psychic readings, whether online, over the phone or in person, psychic predictions, psychic advise, psychic mediums, etc, etc, all rely on the application of specifically such clairvoyant powers in some degree or another.

Does Psychic & Clairvoyant Phenomenon Exist?

Although I really doubt that there are so many master psychics running around doing psychic chat readings, being online love gurus, doing phone readings, etc, in yogic literature there is ample evidence of the existence and successful acquisition of psychic powers.  In addition, when enlightened masters of the caliber of a J. Krishnamurti, whose approach is absolutely intelligent, pure and unemotional, hints at events and situations that can only have paranormal explanations, it gets very difficult to reject the existence of such phenomenon.  Also, there are the accounts of readers who have acquired psychic healing abilities, and clairvoyance via the techniques that I have previously published.  Finally, I have am own encounters with the paranormal, some of which I will go into in this series as well.  So, no doubt such powers exist and can be acquired, so let’s delve into the exercises and methods which help in the development of such psychic energy.

Definition of a Clairvoyance:

The techniques I will provide in this article series are mostly for the development of the psychic power of clairvoyance.  In other articles I will provide yogic and other techniques for the development of other psychic powers. 

What is Clairvoyance? It is primarily the power used by psychic readers, psychic advisers, psychic predictors and such.  Clairvoyance is technically the power to see clearly.  In the context of psychic phenomenon, it is the power to see without or beyond the use of the ordinary senses.  So the power to see far away both in time and distance, the power of sensitivity beyond the ordinary range of perception, and the power of keen intuition are all abilities that come under the umbrella of clairvoyance.

4 Free Techniques for Psychics & Clairvoyants:

1. AUM Mantra Meditation Technique:

As I explained above, clairvoyance is the ability to see without or beyond the normal eye, and another way to define it, is that it is the ability to see with the astral eye.  The astral eye, or Third Eye is the Sixth Chakra of the Kundalini Yoga System.  You can get more information about the chakra system in the following two articles: Kundalini Yoga Seven Chakra System & Analyze, Heal and Balance Your Chakras.  Essentially, opening the Third Eye gives birth to the power of Clairvoyance and Intuitive Knowledge.  Or put another way, it gives one the power to see the unseen and know the unknown.

The following article describes in detail a powerful technique with which to open the Third Eye. The article includes a video demonstration along with guidelines to help you practice this technique safely and successfully.  So if you are a practicing psychic looking to enhance your powers of clairvoyance and intuition, or if you are generally interested in exploring psychic abilities, then this technique is certainly worth exploring.

AUM Mantra Meditation for Psychic Powers

2-4. Samyama Techniques for Clairvoyance by Sage Patanjali:

In the next part of the series I will go into the famous Yoga Sutras of Sage Patanjali and explain what Samyama is, and how psychics can use it specifically to develop their powers of clairvoyance and intuitive readings.

If you are interested in a Numerology & Master Numbers reading, which incorporates intuition, but is mathematically based on your date of birth and the 10 Bodies of Light Yoga Model, you can request one here: 10 Bodies of Light Yoga Numerology Reading.