HPB’s Diagram of Meditation

by Pablo and Michele

Beyond Centralization of Consciousness

Monads . . . even when connected with [the lower Principles] know neither space nor time, but are diffused throughout the former, are omnipresent and ubiquitous.

(H. P. Blavatsky, Collected Writings 5, 79)

There was a man mending the road; that man was myself; the pickaxe he held was myself; the very stone which he was breaking up was a part of me; the tender blade of grass was my very being, and the tree beside the man was myself. I also could feel and think like the roadmender and I could feel the wind passing through the tree, and the little ant on the blade of grass I could feel. The birds, the dust, and the very noise were a part of me. . . . I was in everything, or rather everything was in me, inanimate and animate, the mountain, the worm and all breathing things.

(J. Krishnamurti, Life and Death of Krishnamurti, 42)

Universality of Consciousness

First Acquisition

The normal state of our consciousness must be molded by a perpetual Presence in imagination in all Space and Time.

From this originates a substratum of memory which does not cease in dreaming or waking. Its manifestation is courage.

With memory of universality all dread vanishes during the dangers and trials of life.

The normal state of our consciousness must be molded by a perpetual

Presence in imagination in all Space and Time.

You have to reach to that point when you feel yourself one with the whole, and perfectly inseparable from it—from the one and the eternal, which has no end and no beginning.

(H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine Commentaries, 630)

. . . Behave as if what I say is true and judge by what actually happens. All I ask is the little faith needed for making the first step. With experience will come confidence and you will not need me any more. I know what you are and I am telling you. Trust me for a while.

(Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 255)

The normal state of our consciousness must be molded by a perpetual

Presence in imagination in all Space and Time.

This first step is an extension from meditation on unity. The place of origin for timelessness and spacelessness. A state of homogeneity.

In general we are identified with the content of consciousness … When you watch your emotions and your thoughts there comes little by little a sense that you are the space that contains this movement of consciousness.

This is a subtle feeling where you feel you are embracing everything. You are not the particulars, you are the container. Wherever you are in life try to have this feeling–”I am the container”.

Get outside yourself and stretch your soul.

From this originates a substratum of memory which does not cease in

dreaming or waking. Its manifestation is courage.

As a Master of Wisdom once put it, courage belongs to the immortal soul. The mortal body knows only the law of self-preservation.

(Clara Codd, Gifts of the Lotus, p. 95)

When we know quite certainly that we are part of a whole, we do not so much mind where this particular fragment of it may be, or through what experiences it may be passing.

(C. W. Leadbeater, The Inner Life, 143)

You will recognize that you have returned to your natural state by a complete absence of all desire and fear.

(Nisargadatta, I am That, p. 332)

First Deprivation

Constant refusal to think of reality of separations and meetings, associations with places, times and forms.

[This prevents] futile longings, expectations, sad memories, broken-heartedness.

I am all that, the past and the present and the projected future . . . . When you say you are a Hindu and I am a Muslim . . . there is focalization [of consciousness] through identification [with the personality]…

(J. Krishnamurti, Tradition and Revolution, 211)

When you are bound by the illusion: ‘I am this body’, you are merely a point in space and a moment in time. When the self-identification with the body is no more, all space and time are in your mind, which is a mere ripple in consciousness, which is awareness reflected in nature.

(Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 483)

Focalization of Consciousness

The starting point of the ‘pantheistic’ (we use the word for want of a better one) system of morality is a clear perception of the unity of the one energy operating in the manifested Cosmos . . . The principal obstacle to the realization of this oneness is the inborn habit of man of always placing himself at the centre of the Universe. Whatever a man might act, think or feel, the irrepressible ‘I’ is sure to be the central figure. This, as will appear, on the slightest consideration, is that which prevents every individual from filling his proper sphere in existence, where he only is exactly in place and no other individual is.

(Mohini Chatterji, Collected Writings 5, 336 - 337)

Focalization of Consciousness

As long as you do not see that it is mere habit, built on memory, prompted by desire, you will think yourself to be a person.

(Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 98)

I have been seeing only this fragment [pointing to a portion of the carpet]. . . . My whole life has been spent in observing the fragment. You come along and say this is part of the whole, this would not exist if the other did not exist. But I cannot take my eyes off this fragment. I agree that this can only exist because of the whole carpet but I have never, never looked at the whole carpet. I have never moved away from this. . . . And I do not know how to remove my eyes and look at the whole carpet.

(J. Krishnamurti, Tradition and Revolution, 112)

Focalization of Consciousness

As body, you are in space. As mind, you are in time. But are you mere body with a mind in it? Have you ever investigated?

(Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 252)

Go beyond ‘I-am-the-body’ idea and you will find that space and time are in you and not you in space and time. Once you have understood this, the main obstacle to realization is removed.

(Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 476)

Seeds for Meditation

Seeds for Daily Life

For mind is like a mirror; it gathers dust while it reflects. It needs the gentle breezes of Soul-Wisdom to brush away the dust of our illusions. Seek O Beginner, to blend thy Mind and Soul.

(The Voice of the Silence Fr. 2, 26)

Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought ‘I am’. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.

(Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That, 18-19)

Elementals

Do not mistake your bodies for yourself—neither the physical body, nor the astral, nor the mental. Each one of them will pretend to be the Self, in order to gain what it wants.

When there is work that must be done, the physical body wants to rest, to go out walking, to eat and drink; and the man who does not know says to himself: "I want to do these things, and I must do them."

When your body wishes something, stop and think whether you really wish it. . .

(J. Krishnamurti, At the Feet of the Master, Ch 1 “Discrimination”)

Elementals

The astral body has its desires—dozens of them; it wants you to be angry, to say sharp words, to feel jealous, to be greedy for money, to envy other people their possessions, to yield yourself to depression. All these things it wants, and many more, not because it wishes to harm you, but because it likes violent vibrations, and likes to change them constantly. But you want none of these things, and therefore you must discriminate between your wants and your body's.

Your mental body wishes to think itself proudly separate, to think much of itself and little of others. . . . When you meditate, it will try to make you think of the many different things which it wants instead of the one thing which you want. You are not this mind, but it is yours to use; so here again discrimination is necessary. You must watch unceasingly, or you will fail. (J. Krishnamurti, At the Feet of the Master, Ch 1 “Discrimination”)

How Wolves Change Rivers …

HPB’s Diagram of Meditation

Thank you Beyond Centralization of

Consciousness