Techniques

 

Techniques

The formal, deep meditation of The Path is one of the four pillars of his practice (agya). The other three are satsang, service and angas.

To meditate, the initiate in The Path has four techniques that allow him to distance himself from the activities of the mind. Some of these techniques can only be practiced sitting down, like music (or sound, “Nada”) and light.

 

A technique can be practiced sitting down and can also be practiced while doing what we have to do, it is the technique called "Holy-Name". The service (inaction or Wu Wei from Lao-Tzu), one of the pillars of practice, is to do what you do, throughout the day, by practicing this technique.

The last technique; that of the Nectar is practiced during the day, outside of the time of formal meditation, either alone or at the same time as the technique called of the Holy-Name. By meditating with the so-called technique of light, one can see shining light behind the screen with his closed eyelids.

 

While meditating on the music, you can hear melodious sounds in your right ear. The Holy-Name technique allows you to concentrate without having to pronounce a mantra or make a particular posture, which allows you to use it throughout the day.

 

None of these four techniques is a body posture or a mantra. They are revealed to those who request them.

These techniques are not an invention, many traditional mystical "currents" in India teach all or parts of these four techniques. Techniques do not do everything and meditation is only one of the four pillars of the agya (sadhana or dharma for Buddha Gautama). Inner posture or motivation also counts, and spiritual virtues, such as humility, simplicity and constancy.

 

 

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