Love and Resistance

Some people have a deep intuitive sense about the nature of divine Love. Others have had a near-death experience in which they experienced a most beautiful powerful Love that cannot be put into words. Still others ask, "What is Love?"

To these people I suggest: First learn to love yourself. Breathe in a way that is gentle and pleasurable. Breathe deep to bring your attention to the lower chakras—which need attention and healing. Breathe with more consciousness each day. This brings energy to the higher chakras. When you fill yourself up with the deep breath of conscious gentleness, you know Love. Love is a frequency that emanates from Within. Once tuned into, it can be shared ad infinitum. The more you give, the more you will grow—and glow.

People who find meditation frustrating usually have suffered various traumas. My suggestion is to recall a moment when you gave or received pure love. Simply recall the feeling in every cell in your body—and you are there. Your body does not know the difference between what you "imagine" to be real or what is occurring in space-time. Your brain chemistry and emotions will be the same.

This vivid memory of pure love can be a powerful starting point for meditation. Let go of the visual aspects of the memory and focus on its essence: the deep feeling (its frequency within your subtle body). Breathe deep to keep your mind focussed on the feelings you stir. Breathe deep to learn how to love, how to open your heart chakra and heal the past. When painful emotions come up, do not push them away. Simply feel your feelings. If you feel like crying, cry. Allow the healing to take its course. There may be days when every time you try to meditate, you want to cry. This is a sign that the process is working. You are clearing away the past to find the ever-present beauty within. Tears of conscious sorrow are alchemized into tears of joy.

Resistance to Meditation

If your meditation process is not simple, natural, and fun, then you will not look forward to meditation.

Resistance to meditation may also be a sign that you are on the verge of a breakthrough. Your ego knows that you will have to make a change in your life that requires letting go of something near and dear. The spirit is willing while the ego looks for ways to keep you in darkness. Your life will stand still: you will feel as if nothing is changing for the better. The only ways to release this block is by illness and accidents, or prayer and meditation. Medicate or meditate. The choice is always yours.

I suggest that you sincerely pray, everyday, "God, show me what I am afraid to see" and watch the magic happen.

Sincerity

A sincere student of spirituality does not look to increase his spiritual knowledge base. Sincerity looks for the next divinely inspired breakthrough. Sincerity looks for God to speak through stones, advertisements, children, lawyers, priests—and from Within. "Is this the key to take me deeper?" If it is not, sincerity lets it go: empties the mind and becomes free to see the world in childlike wonderment.

Sincerity does not argue. It listens. Sincerity does not look for faults in others, only in itself. Sincerity seeks only one insight a day to keep the gurus away, one insight into the nature of love, truth—or its own blindness. Sincerity realizes that it does not know what it does not know, so it prays for the type of insight that will catapult itself into the realms of divine consciousness.

How does sincerity know that it has found the key for the day? Sincerity’s attention is always in the Heart. When the Heart whispers "This is it!" it looks for a quiet place to meditate or turn the key into Reality.

Sincerity learns quickly and lets go of yesterday’s insight as quickly as it was absorbed. Sincerity sees the brain not as a storehouse of facts—but as a divine radio receiver. The more energy it has (the more the kundalini is awakened), the more divine stations it can tune to (the more positive choices available). The more sincerity, the easier it is to tune into the most beautiful music.

Certainty

In life there are very few things that we can be absolutely certain about. Here is my list: Love and Infinite Consciousness. With such a concise list, I realized that I ought to create a way of living that began, went through, and ended with Love—in a conscious way. My solution is to Breathe Love (explained in The Holy Grail, not yet published), which is a continuous reminder of my means and my Goal.

Therefore, purify your heart by continuous sweet remembrance of love. Go deeper into its Heart so that you may more easily live It and become It. As you find more peace and wisdom, you will be more certain that you are on the right path.

Trust

During meditation you must simply trust the process of tuning into ever more powerful, subtle frequencies of Love—by simply following the meditation instructions exactly. After meditation you have all the time in the world to analyze why you feel so happy.

Similarly, as you progress in meditation, you must trust your inner guidance more and more. If you ignore your own wisdom or are too afraid to say what you feel, then your meditations may stop progressing. You must learn to tune into your Heart in every aspect of life—and live in courageous loving freedom.

Doing Love

There are times when you must put aside your warm inner connection and simply "do love " through pure selfless action. If you seek the feeling of love, you ignore the Self beyond feelings. Your attachment to warm feelings becomes self-absorbed narcissism. For example, when you need to move your body quickly to help others, your attention must, to a certain extent, remain with your physical movements.

As you progress in meditation, however, and find the Center, you will rarely lose your inner connection—even while your mind is absorbed in selfless worldly activities. You become like the lotus flower whose roots are in the mud while your Heart petals face the Sun. You may not notice the warm "feeling"—which is on the sense level—but you will always sense your higher Self guiding you from Within.

Ascension: Invisible Progress

Ultimately, actions reveal our spiritual progress. Beginners become confused because they may begin meditation "feeling" love generated by the memory or emotions, but then lose the feeling as they progress beyond the senses into the higher chakras. They are looking for a stronger feeling rather than opening to a new form of Love (pure Awareness). They will feel powerful love after meditation when their attention returns to the body, but during meditation they do not think they are progressing—when in fact they are. This misunderstanding ends when they recognize how love manifests in each of the seven chakras.