15 - Advanced Contemplation ; The Peace Within You by Paul Brunton

Author:Paul Brunton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Published: 2010-10-03T19:28:32.549000+00:00

7.1 Experiencing The Passage Into Contemplation

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As he enters this immobile state, not only do his eyes close to the scenes of this world but his mind closes to the thought of it. The reflected change appears on his face, which is transfigured, mysterious, and serene.

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The lines of the face become somewhat rigid, the eyes mostly or wholly closed, as he retires into himself and into abstraction from this world. That which draws him magnetically through noisy thoughts to the state of silent thoughtlessness is none other than the soul itself.

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The world recedes and the last fringes of it in awareness seem a long, long way off. The sensation is exquisitely comforting.

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He is beginning to succeed when his absorption is so deep that the world outside seems a thousand miles away.

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At this point he may lose touch with the outer world and no longer see or sense it in any way. The consciousness sinks away from place and form, the passing of time and the solidity of matter, into its own being.

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The world is more and more shut off as his concentrated attention moves inward until it vanishes altogether. It is then that he may become aware of his unknown "soul" and its peace.

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In this state the feeling of the passage of time and the perception of forms in space may or may not vanish, according to its depth.

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The deepest meditation takes the meditator to a completely different level of consciousness. It causes him to drop all thoughts about the world and especially about himself.

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One cannot experience the outside world in exactly the same way as he is experiencing the inside self. In both ways he is experiencing God, but there is a difference. At the deepest possible point of meditation one reaches the stillness; there is no world-experience any more. Beyond it one cannot go: even the "he" is lost.

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This feeling of extreme lightness, of entire independence from the body, may grow to such an extreme point of intensity that the idea of being actually levitated into the air may take hold of his mind. He is in such a state that inner reality is confused with physical reality.

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He feels that his hands become heavy, hard to move. This is because he is half-separated from his body. Soon he feels quite free of them, light as air. The mental change accompanying this liberation is quite extraordinary. He feels that he would smile gravely and tranquilly, if only he could, but he feels only on the verge of doing so, not being quite able to finish it.

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In that deeper state when the body is held still with concentration, the mind paradoxically feels most liberated.

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In this deep state the body, while one's consciousness of it remains, assumes a fixed position of its own accord. A powerful force surges through it, straightening the spine, lifting the head, and stretching the feet.

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There is a strange dislocation of consciousness' seat, pushing it out of his body slightly, up above his head and somewhat behind his torso.

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