The general meditational art is S.I.R. or in Sanskrit SHAMATHA : VIPASHYANA
■ This video offers a crystal clear elucidation by someone having really read and having comprehensively understood the gnostic Christian texts as the manuals for the Western version of the meditational art.
A stark difference with those simply rejecting them because not having read them or even worse, having accepted without critical thinking a cartoonish version of the gnostic Christian texts.
■ Hating versus QUESTIONING
The gnostic texts are not at all World-hating.
They are World-QUESTIONING.
Between hating and questioning with curiosity and open-mindedness, with the earnest desire to PLAYFULLY EXPLORE, to THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATE into the inner cosmos & the outer universe, that’s quite an abysmal difference.
■ Here’s a quite insightful presentation about the gnostic idea of the Demiurge — from the Greek word demiorgos which simply means craftsman — not the cartoonish mythological character but its meaning within a mythological construct as A MAP OF THE HUMAN MIND and that map, comprehensively understood, CAN BE A GATEWAY TO THE MONAD, the One, the Virgin Spirit, the Invisible Spirit, the whole Pneuma, the Pure Infinite Awareness.
Remember that those mythological characters are aspects of our own human minds and of our own human experiencing.
■ It’s quite interesting but as I wrote yesterday, I ultimately don’t care much about those sethian or valentinian cosmologies full of mythological and symbolic characters but more about THE ESSENTIAL : THE HEALTHY LAWFUL HUMAN LIVING EXPERIENCE OF GNOSIS, the healthy lawful human living experience of PURE INFINITE AWARENESS.
■ The earnest study of what is the World, INNER COSMOS & OUTER UNIVERSE, helps not seeing it as malevolent but as AN ENCOMPASSING STRUCTURE WITH ITS LAWS.
If someone jumps from a 30 storeys building and tragically dies, reality is not malevolent. It’s sadly the ignorance, the unawareness or the dismissal of the law of gravitation structuring the World.
■ Using the lexicon of Confucian and Buddhist epistemologies, the Demiurge is building his own limited World because *he *IDENTIFIES *ONLY *with *what *he *CAN *grasp. He is IGNORANT or perhaps better worded, he is UNAWARE of higher dimensions AND HE UNCONSCIOUSLY IDENTIFIES WITH A PART wrongly BELIEVING IT’s THE WHOLE.
Let’s not forget that in the mythological narrative : THE DEMIURGE is absolutely UNAWARE THAT HIS MOTHER IS none other than SOPHIA, WISDOM.
The personal name of the Demiurge is YALDABAOTH, which means the Child of Chaos. THE CHILD of CHAOS is coming from the absence of the lawful timeless universal Structuring Principle, from the absence of a center of PURE INFINITE AWARENESS.
■ That’s exactly the notion conveyed by the Sanskrit word MAYA often translated as illusion. Perhaps MAYA is better translated as the MENTAL POWER of UNCONSCIOUS IDENTIFICATION to A PART wrongly BELIEVING IT’s THE WHOLE. In one word, MAYA is IDENTIFICATION.
That UNCONSCIOUS IDENTIFICATION is happening because of the ABSENCE of the DAWN, the Dynamically Aware Witnessing presence Now, of the ABSENCE of PURE INFINITE AWARENESS.
■ THE TREATMENT
The treatment has already been prescribed long looooong ago by the masters of meditation from all the great civilizations.
The treatment is IN ONE WORD : *EDUCARE* just BRING FORTH FROM WITHIN by SEEING and unwaveringly REMEMBERING.
As explained by the video I sent yesterday, it’s staggeringly simple but it has to be unwaveringly practiced till it’s a second nature, till it’s FULLY REALIZED IN EVERY SITUATIONS OF ONE”s REAL LIFE.
■ THE GENERAL MEDITATIONAL ART is S.I.R.
S.TABILIZE I.NVESTIGATE R.EMEMBER
● S.TABILIZE the mental agitation : Choose any of your loved methods
● I.NVESTIGATE earnestly in your heart : *WHO IS AWARE ?*
**Not WHAT am I aware of but WHO is aware ?**
A radical shift : A metanoia : a conversion from aware of WHAT to WHO is aware ?
● Once SEEN The ONE who IS AWARE …
— that first foundational experience is AN INNER DISCOVERY … AN EURÊKA MOMENT … OH !!! THAT !!! WOW !!! WOW !!! WOW !!! A DEEP REAL LASTING INNER JOY !!! —
… THEN simply and unwaveringly R.EMEMBER *THAT *ONE everyday of your life.
■ Everything above is said in 2 words by Buddhist epistemology as :
SHAMATHA : VIPASHYANA (Sanskrit)
SHAMATHA : VIPASSANA (Pali)
Deep RELAXATION : Deep INSIGHT