Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00100)

In a message dated 4/8/99 2:45:51 PM, schuelergerald@optec-hq.optec.army.mil 
writes:

>Probably the singlemost accepted tried and true method
>used everywhere throughout history is meditation. Good
>actions aren't enough albeit they are an essential first
>step. Virtually all meditation, especially yogic meditation,
>uses directed active imagination one way or another.
>Even the yogic meditation of no-thoughts is imaginative.
>One of the most effective meditation teachniques is
>to visualize thoughts flowing one after another like
>clouds across an open sky, and then looking in between
>any two. How can anyone meditate without imagining
>something?

How about the "meditation without a seed" spoken of by Patanjali?  Since that 
highest form of meditation, leading to pure "isolation" (enlightenment) and 
the transcendence of time, requires no image in an absolutely still 
mind--where is the place of the "imagination" in that?  Imagination requires 
an image.  Rather than the path of altruism taking one so far, and no 
further--holding onto any image will never let one get any higher than the 
manasic plane.  Altruism, at least will enable one to remain a purified 
Bodhisattva until the end of the Kalpa--whereupon one will be reborn as a 
fully enlightened (relatively, on that level) Adi Buddha soul.

LHM 

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