Now, number eight. Suppose you have a moment of freedom and too short to do the (inner Heavenly) Light meditation, then you can “concentrate between the eyebrows.” As you know, you know where, the wisdom center, perhaps, and let your mind concentrate on the space before every thought arises. You know where it is. Before all thinking started, before all desires sprout up, concentrate on that. Perhaps, in the Buddhist’s term, we call it “emptiness,” “empty space,” or we call them the “mindless place,” things like that, or “the gate-less gate.” And then whatever form is supposed to come to your mind at that time, or maybe your own form, let it be filled with the universal life force. Imagine, maybe. “And then, you take a “shower” in this (inner Heavenly) Light, in this essence of the Universe. Like you are taking a shower, but not the shower of water, but the shower of the universal (inner Heavenly) Light, of the universal blessing, and illumination.
So in every circumstance, we can always try to illuminate ourselves by using the circumstance, by using the busy-ness that we are at that moment, and be in the present, in the present time. That’s the best situation. So in all the mundane activities, we can always practice. There’s no need to say “I don’t have time;… I can’t cross my legs,” and things like that. You can, whenever you can, you do it. And whenever you cannot, you do it as you are working. Turn your work into meditation. Concentrate on the force behind all the works, behind all the running, behind all the activities, then you will always find something to meditate upon. And there is always plenty of time. Because we can use the time of every situation for concentrating. You got it now? (Yes.)
Now, number nine. “You can liken your five senses as the five colors of the peacock tail and then spread them all over the space,” you spread the five-colored peacock tail all over the universe. Fill them with colors. Fill the universe with color. But, these colors are supposed to be your five senses. Perhaps, smelling, tasting, touching, these senses... Now, because the peacock tail color is very colorful and very beautiful, so you let these colors and beauty melt within yourself. And then anytime you feel that there is a limit, you spread them out, until there is no more limit left. “In that case, you dissolve all the frontier within your mind, and then thus, whatever you wish well for other people will come true.” So that’s how you convert your power into limitless use. That’s how you can bestow benefit on countless beings, and be... kind of a benefactor to all kinds of people who surround you, or who come in contact with you, or whom you are praying for. OK. Where are we now? Number nine already, right? When I speak spontaneously, it’s easier. But when I have to concentrate on the meaning of the ancient wisdom, and I don’t want to make a mistake, that is more intellectual, and it’s very difficult. Intellectual; the use of intellectual talk is very difficult.
Number ten: “You can also close your eyes, and try to see your inner being, in all details.” And thus, while you’re concentrating on the inner being, “then you will see your True Nature.” Try to understand if you can. If whatever the method you cannot use, just leave it.
And number eleven: “Place your whole attention on your nerves, and you should know that the nerves are so delicate, as the thread of the lotus within the lotus itself. And thus, you will transform your physical being.” What He meant is, if it’s so difficult to control the mind, then try to make him concentrate on such a delicate pattern, just as the nerves in our body. Because you have never seen them before, so it is very difficult for the mind to imagine all these nerves, and it’s good for him; it serves him well. So that he will have no time to wander around and do anything else. Suppose, maybe... For many people, it is suitable for them to be complicated like that. Because not all beings are alike; not all people are the same. So if for everybody to try to concentrate, he’ll probably use a different kind of concentration, a different situation.
In the Himalayas, perhaps you don’t need all these complications. You only look at the snow, and then you freeze. You freeze in time and space. And the mind cannot run anywhere else, because after a while, he’s used to emptiness, whiteness, and of the emptiness of the mountain. There is nothing there for him to fancy. After sometime, perhaps, all the desires, all the habitual patterns recorded in the mind will be exhausted, emptied. And then he doesn’t fill it back in with newspapers, or television, or bad movies. Then it stays at least half-empty. That’s why many Masters favor the Himalayas or the desert.
I stayed in the desert myself too. It was beautiful, for sometime, maybe two weeks. Until one day, it was very cold, and I nearly collapsed. And then I had to run back to the house, into the city, not the city, but another place. It’s a house. Because in the desert where I stayed, there was no house, no water, no electricity. There is water, but we have to go and fetch it. Very far away, about two kilometers or something. It’s not directly from the tap like that. And there’s nothing in that desert, only dry shrubs here and there, and mouse(-people). And, oh yeah, we had rabbit(-people). The desert rabbit(-person) is so small, you can’t imagine. You would’ve thought it’s a mouse(-person)! Yeah, pretty small, but looks like a rabbit(-person). Just like me, I look small but I am... I’m a human being. Perhaps there’s not much to eat in the desert, so the rabbit(-people) become smaller, smaller and smaller.
So, now let’s see, what else. Number twelve: “Closing the seven openings of the head with your hands, and then the space between your eyes will become all-inclusive.” You know what that means already, don’t you? All this boils down to the wisdom center. Different way of talking about it. Just like, I talk so many things, but it boils down always to the Quan Yin Method. I go to make different lectures, different tempting “dishes,” but all only after at the end, I give them only one – the Quan Yin Method and the (inner Heavenly) Light.
Now, number thirteen. These are for the people who probably cannot concentrate well, so using different kinds of helping tools. Just like sometimes people write to me and say it’s very difficult for them to concentrate on the (inner Heavenly) Light. So I say, “Well scratch your wisdom Eye a little bit, or you just touch it with the fingernail, or a pin if you can bear it, but don’t make yourself bleed. Don’t bleed from here, just touch it so that you remember.” That’s one of the methods. Or sometimes, somebody... Shiva doesn’t say it here, but I have many more methods than this. For example, when I walk around the meditation hall, and I see some people just sit there in deep “samadhi,” with the head turning here and there all the time, and then I just pat them on the crown chakra, and then, back he concentrates again. But that method Shiva did not write here. I’ll tell Him, I’ll tell Him, He has to modernize more than that. Because in the old time, perhaps people didn’t sleep so much like these times. And in these times, people have air condition and heating systems, so it’s very comfortable. So people tend to be too comfortable, so we have to use many more methods.
So, number thirteen, He says, “If you cannot concentrate,” while meditating, perhaps, “then you can touch your eyeballs lightly, as light, as light as a feather. And then maybe at that time you will see the (inner Heavenly) Light.” Yeah, I think so. I think you should rub your eyes more likely, because you always sleep. If you touch as a feather, I think you could not even move. You rub with your gloves and everything. What He said was for the old-time people. But nevertheless, you may try if you cannot concentrate. The effort that you use with your fingers to touch your eyeballs, “as light as a feather” must be concentration. It’s just a trick to bring your mind back into focus. So it is pretty good, huh? (Yes.)
So when you’re already all kinds of topsy-turvy, thinking back and forth from Germany to America, and then back to the bathroom, and back to the eating room again, and then if you can even concentrate enough to put your hand “as light as a feather,” so rough a hand like yours to put on there, then at least you’re back again, to the meditating business. So, I think the Master was very clever; Shiva was very clever. He destroyed all kinds of bad habits and negativity within us, using all kinds of methods.
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