“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
Sit in a comfortable seat. If possible, sit close to the ground. If more comfortable, sit in a chair, with back straight; lie in Savasana.
Breath, inhale and exhale. Breath slow, deep breathes. In; out. As your attention becomes anchored to your breathe, the mind and body become one. If nothing more is accomplished than awareness of your breath, this in itself is a fruitful practice.
Continue to breath. Turn your attention inward.
Breath, inhale and exhale. Breath slow, deep breathes.
Sit like a Buddha.
Relax your mental awareness into a state of observation. Become the observer of your own Self.
One-pointedness of mind is the mastery of the senses. Concentration grows out of one-pointedness of mind. Meditation is concentration on the divine.
“To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.”
Continue to observe your breath. Each inhale creates space; with each exhale, surrender the mind.
Inhale; space. Exhale; surrender.
Space; surrender.
Be at peace with all that arises and passes away.
As the mind becomes calm and clear, pay attention to mental formations and thought patterns. Observe. Each thought arises and passes away to the degree there is attachment. Attention on the breath plants the seeds of non-attachment.
Attention on the breath is the door to reality.
“Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.”
Fear and doubt create mental formations and thought patterns. Fear and doubt are veils of illusion; dragons of our lower self.
Fear and doubt only live in the maze of the mind. Through attention on the breath, the forces of suffering grow weak.
Continue to practice anchoring with the breath, through sitting, walking, and returning to the breath in daily life.