The God Light Quick Meditation

Concentrate On the Image while listening to the music, glare at the image for about 30 Seconds then close your eyes continuing to Imagine the Image in your mind.

In this method you need a crystal, Amethyst is usually more effective but any crystal will do. Firstly put the crystal under a cold tap for a minute or in the freezer for 30 minutes. Next sit relaxed with relaxation music on. Next place the crystal on your forehead while counting backwards from 100 to 51, while listening to the music with your eyes shut. Next remove the crystal from your forehead and continue counting down to 1 still concentrating on your forehead. This technique will open your third eye up so that you can see clearly as well as relaxing your mind.

In this technique you need to be sat in a chair while listening to relaxation music. Firstly start rocking your body gently as if you where on a swing, Imagine in your mind your are on a swing with your eyes shut, while counting backwards from about 300 to 1. Next after a few minutes stop rocking but still imagine your self to be on a swing in your mind while you continue to count backwards. If this is done properly you will leave your body like you are on a swing and the feeling is unbelievable.

Please remember while meditating or practising mediumship techniques, try to have only good and honest thoughts in your mind as like attracts like and by opening yourself up you are attracting entities of like minds towards you.

Meditation on emptiness (How things exist)

Now I'm going to elaborate a little on the subject of emptiness. The way in which everything exists is by being merely labelled by the mind. But that does not mean that everything the mind labels actually exists. Even though everything exists by being merely labelled by the mind, that doesn't mean that if your mind labels something it automatically brings it into existence. For example, say I cut up a huge pile of newspapers into little pieces and my mind labels each one "a billion dollars" — that doesn't make each piece of paper worth a billion dollars. Even though my mind has merely labelled those pieces of paper "a billion dollars," that doesn't mean each one has become a billion dollars. If it were possible for that to happen, we wouldn't have to vote in presidential elections. We wouldn't have to put all that effort into raising funds, campaigning, spending all that money, holding inquiries, to elect the president. All you'd have to do would be to label yourself, "I'm the American president," and you'd become president. If things coming into existence were only up to the mind labelling them, if that's all it took, then that's what would happen. Whenever you wanted to be president, all you'd have to do would be to have your mind label yourself president and you'd be president. In that way, everybody could become president. Maybe there'd be nobody left who wasn't president. A magician could hypnotize you into believing that he'd given you a bag full of money, and you might carry it home, believing you were rich, but later, when you opened it up, there'd be nothing there but cut up pieces of newspaper. That's one way of showing that it doesn't exist — for your own mind to discover that it's not true. Later, when you're not under the influence of hypnosis, you realize that it was an illusion, that the money you saw didn't exist. Everything was there for your mind — the appearance of money and your mind labelling it money — but it wasn't money. Another way of showing that it does not exist is for other people not to see the money. Because of the illusion created by hypnosis, money appears to your mind, but other people, whose minds are not under the illusion, don't see it. Therefore, it takes more than appearance and labelling by mind for something to exist. Dreams are another example of something where your own mind can discover that appearance and labelling by mind are insufficient to bring something into existence. For instance, one night you might have a dream in which you became king, got married in a huge wedding ceremony, lived in a luxurious jewelled palace and had many children. While you are dreaming, the appearance of all this and your mind merely labelling it are both there, but when you wake up you again realize it wasn't true. You're not king, there's no palace, no wealth, no princes and princesses — nothing. You don't have any of that.

For things to exist, mere labelling by mind is not enough. There has to be a valid base. Not just any base — a valid base. Therefore, I cannot label my bell "car." This object can receive the label "bell," but not "car" or "airplane." It receives the label "bell' by virtue of the way the valid base functions. Mere labelling by mind is not enough — there has to be a valid base. In the case of a bell, the base has to have a certain shape and perform the function of ringing. This is what validates it. Furthermore, the valid base that is merely labelled "bell" by the mind should not be harmed by another's valid mind. What's a valid mind? A mind that perceives things correctly, that is not under the influence of disease, drugs, mantras or hypnotic spells, which might cause it to see sense objects in an illusory way. Next, the object we claim to exist should not be harmed by a fully enlightened being's mind. A Buddha's mind is completely unmistaken, completely purified, free from hallucination. All existent phenomena are the object of the omniscient mind; it sees whatever exists. If the omniscient mind does not see the bell, the bell does not exist. Finally, for the bell that is merely labelled by the mind to exist, it should not receive harm from the wisdom realizing emptiness, ultimate nature. If the bell, which is merely imputed by the mind, is harmed

by the wisdom realizing emptiness, it does not exist. Thus, there are three kinds of mind that can harm, or invalidate, the existence of what appears to be, for example, a bell: another person's valid conventional mind; an omniscient mind; and the wisdom realizing emptiness. Now, regarding this valid base, this phenomenon that has the function of ringing and possesses this particular shape, our mind creates the label, "bell." This, then, is the real bell, the bell that we use, the one that is merely imputed by our mind, the valid base that is labelled "bell" by our mind.

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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