3.20 Meditation

The Guide isn’t a guide to meditation – there are plenty of excellent books and classes out there for that. This section was included just to provide some examples of meditation to illustrate the effects it can have, and to show you that the abilities you’ve awakened in your journey through The Guide have given you meditation superpowers. If you have reached a level where you can enter Unity easily, many types of meditation will be very easy for you to complete successfully on the first try.

Here are some different types of meditation to try:

Zen riddles (Koans)
1. I used to think of Zen riddles as trick questions you had to find an answer to, like any other riddle, but that’s not what they’re for. Their true purpose is to act like a mental 3D puzzle, which when solved, causes your mind to perceive reality differently or shifts it into a specific altered state of consciousness (sometimes Unity, sometimes not). Then an insight or realisation is revealed. Very interesting stuff and very clever. There are multiple ways to solve Zen riddles, and the same riddle may not provide everyone with the same insight, or in fact with the same insight if repeated. All insights and realisations received are valid though and should be treated with respect.
2. Here’s how I solve them (there are other ways…): consider the famous Zen riddle “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”.
  1. Clear your mind.
  2. Visualise the riddle.
  3. Feel the weight of the words as you turn them around in your mind.
  4. Form philosophical questions about the words, the riddle, and their meaning. For example “what is sound?”, “what is a hand?”, “what is a clap?”, “how does a clap form?” and so on and so on.
  5. Answer each question by exploring it and its implications with your mind. Don’t try to be clever and answer questions intellectually, just stay focused, visualise the questions and the riddle, and let the answers appear on their own.
  6. After some time, the overall riddle will unfold and reveal an insight to you. When this happens, you should be able to feel a distinct shift in your perception of reality or state of consciousness – allow this to happen in the same way you allow yourself to enter Unity. The shift may be short-lived or long-lasting, but you should be able to remember the insight afterwards, even if you stop experiencing it.
  7. For variety, try the same riddle again but use different questions to analyse it, try different riddles or try during a full body or energy orgasm session.
Non-Zen Zen riddles
1. By combining the same approach to solving Zen riddles with other sources of inspiration, you can form your own meditations. If they don’t work on their own, try them during a soul orgasm session.
2. Poems
  1. Short spiritual, religious or philosophical poems are especially good (e.g. “You are not a drop in the Ocean, you are the entire Ocean in a drop” by Jalaluddin Rumi, or “Me, We” by Muhammad Ali).
3. Nature / being in nature
  1. Allow yourself to be immersed in the beauty of the natural world and form philosophical questions inspired by it.
4. Objects
  1. Focus on a physical object in your vicinity, or on something more abstract, such as your breath or happiness, then apply the same Zen riddle approach.
5. A person or figure you want to show devotion to
  1. Similar to the Enhancing Technique – Devotion / Love from Section 3.8, but incorporating the Zen riddle approach.
Self-inquiry and awareness meditations
1. There are many different types of meditation in this category from various meditation and spiritual systems. The instructions for the Complete Unity Technique: Complete Ego Disconnection in Section 3.2 contain elements of them for example.
2. I like the following example because it contains a number of different techniques and the final effect is quite unique. It’s called The Time Field Meditation.
  1. Create a sacred space with candles, incense and music.
  2. Sit upright in a space with room to lie down if desired.
  3. Initiate the Temple of the Heart technique from Section 3.12 and take it to the point where you are in Strong Unity, your energy is focused on your chest and you are residing in the Temple of the Heart.
  4. Visualise the question: “where is the boundary between future, present and past?”.
  5. Don’t try to answer the question intellectually, feel it – reach out with your mind and feel time flowing as events move from future into present and present into past.
  6. Feel the phases between the boundaries.
  7. Feel the phases merging and disappearing. Start to perceive all experience as happening in a unified field of now.
  8. Let go of the labels of “before” and “after” – everything is now. Everything is.
  9. Allow all thoughts to disappear. Allow any focus on your breathing to disappear.
  10. Visualise the question: “is time occurring in my awareness or outside it?”
  11. Feel the question. Feel reality and experience everything, including time, arising from within your awareness.
  12. Let yourself dissolve into the field of now. You are no longer moving through time. You are now. You are always. You are everything. Everything is.
  13. Stay in this state for as long as you can or want to by “just being”. Stopping focusing / concentrating etc. will bring you out of it.
Vision meditation
1. Light a candle and dim the lights.
2. Sit in front of it and breathe deeply for a few minutes. Make yourself mentally focused.
3. Let your gaze alight on the flame, not hard staring but rather resting on it.
4. Bring your awareness to your forehead and keep your gaze resting on the flame.
5. After some time, you’ll feel connected to the flame via the space between you and it. When this happens, objects around you may appear to vibrate subtly and seem brighter. It’s possible for lights or shapes to appear.
6. This meditation is designed for beginners, so most instructions advocate staying focused on the flame and observing any effects for 10-15 minutes, then ending the meditation, but as you can slip into states of Unity easily, try allowing yourself to do that. It’s possible to get quite strong visual effects like this.

There is a huge variety of meditation approaches and specific meditations, with many different purposes and many different sensations, so if you like the selection above, try some others. Your new found meditation superpowers will allow you to generate powerful effects from even the simplest beginner meditations, so don’t limit yourself to the ones which sound complicated or advanced.

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