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Right Meditation




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"But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light."--Ephesians 5:13

WRONG MEDITATION: The only concern is with the conscious control of the attention. Identity is left to chance in darkness.

RIGHT MEDITATION: The primary concern is with the conscious control of the identity. The secondary concern is with the conscious control of the attention as it assists in the conscious control of the identity.

AWARENESS: Become aware of identity as self-consciousness. Develop awareness of the self as the vessel: the container for the contents. Develop awareness of the vessel as a transceiver: both receiving and resending signals from other sources.

ATTENTION: Use attention to tune into both what your vessel is and what your identity is. Use attention to remain aware of what you are attaching your identity to. Use your attention to remain aware of the need to detach from the knowledge of good and evil, and to reattach to your vessel.

IDENTITY: Practice moving your identity from anything but your vessel back to your vessel without fighting or arguing. Do not fight, resist, change, or control anything that identity is attached to--rather--simply detach your identity from things/thoughts and reattach your identity to your vessel. Move your identity from the contents to the container by paying attention to what your identity and the container are.

FREEDOM: The right goal for meditation is the total freedom of attention or the unrestrained response of attention. As it is now, you control with darkness, a.k.a. suppression, what you will allow yourself to see and hear inside. Wrong meditation seeks to control attention. Attention must be set free for honesty to occur.

CONTROL: There are two goals for right meditation: (1) freed attention; (2) controlled identity. In practice this means that you follow out whatever is in you without trying to change, control, reframe, or deny it in any way: freed attention. It also means that you resist identifying with anything other than your vessel nature: controlled identity.

ATTACHMENT: You want your attention to be free and unattached. You want your identity to be attached only to self. You want your attention to be able to go to any contents. You want your identity to be able to go to only the container.

QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES

"Right meditation is the control of identity and the freeing of attention."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"So to understand what is requires a state of mind in which there is no identification or condemnation, which means a mind that is alert yet passive."--J. Krishnamurti in The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, Volume V, page 50

"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."--John 3:19

"But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.--Ephesians 5:13

"Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light."--Ephesians 5:14

"This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all."--I John 1:5

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."--Betty Smith

"You are free to host anything as long as you only host, that is, as long as you do nothing but host."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Knowledge does not do."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Knowledge does not know."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Knowledge does not get it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Knowledge is not it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Knowledge has no intelligence."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Facts can't figure."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Facts can't feel."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Facts can't fix."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Observe it away."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"Meditation is doing nothing but hosting."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."--Ralph Waldo Emerson