Clare Rosenfield
The philosophy of vibrations changes your whole life style. Your level of consciousness ultimately attracts people from the same level of consciousness as your own. So you have to raise your consciousness. New life cannot come only from words. It must come from new thinking, new vibrations.
To bring those new vibrations, drop the old, clear your files, and throw away the junk. Say to yourself: "I don't want those old thoughts, those negative memories, those conditionings." When you go on clearing, your mind becomes light. But before these old patterns go for good, they will tempt you and play tricks on you. If you are not careful, they will keep on giving flickering signs to you and they may make new scars on your consciousness.
You must not allow them to make you angry and frustrated. You must talk to them and tell them: "Now you go! You are old tenants and your lease is up! I will not renew your contract." Once you recognize that these so-called tenants are unwanted guests, then you are ready to evict them. You realize that you must have invited them into your consciousness long ago when you were in a hazy, ignorant state of mind. Old habits of thinking know how to make themselves at home, but no matter how comfortable or comforting they may appear to you, you must be firm in your resolve to empty your mental house.
If this sentient living energy does not give up the old insentient, the stale stagnant matter becomes a burden to you and a cause of pain. The more thorough the mental housecleaning, the more buoyant you feel. The more you allow dry leaves to drop away, the more aware you are of what you are in essence and of what is relevant to your present living. Now you are open to receive the new.
What is the new life? None other than that living conscious energy pulsating and vibrating in all life forms. It is your own latent power. To enter the path of meditation you must have a conscious awareness of your latent power. If you are not aware of that treasure within you, you are not going to long for it. You are not going to reach for it. If you see the end in the beginning, you will take the beginning to the end.
For that you must believe in yourself. Until now you have believed in everybody but yourself. Now you realize that you are holding a precious diamond within you. Polish it and your radiance comes out. Otherwise it remains like a rough stone, covered with so many layers. Discover yourself! Visualize and say to yourself, "Just now I am a rough diamond, but I see inside me is brilliance. I am rich with knowledge, vision and bliss."
When you have seen yourself you really work on yourself. You upanishad - sit close. Sit close to whom? To yourself. Or to him or her who can take you to yourself. To the "diamond-cutter" who knows just where to cut so that your roughness is broken and the whole diamond comes out. The teacher is not always one who wears the clothes of a guru. The guru is anyone or anything who removes the darkness of your ignorance, who helps you uncover your brilliance. Once you uncover your self, you become your own teacher.
Once there was a pleasure-hunting king who had a pastime of hunting. One evening he was sitting by a lake fishing: tempting them, luring them with bait and piercing their mouths with anglers and hooks. The sunset was particularly striking and the king was moved. It was the rainy season and the sunset produced the full spectrum of seven colors. The king became so happy that he continued to watch eagerly.
Slowly he saw the color fade away; darkness came over everything. He saw the dark and he realized in a flash: "O, is this my life? I am pulsating with pleasures. How long will this remain? O, let me change and be a friend to all living beings before the colors of my youth fade away!"
The king became so deeply aware of his inner consciousness that he put an end to his former self-indulgent ways and cruel pastime. The sunset inspired him to see the quality of his soul. This transformed his life. In this incident the sunset was his guru.
Meditation is this: a complete transformation of consciousness, an uncovering of that indestructible energy which lies hidden in you. Otherwise you can sit and recite a mantrum to get calm, but it will only be a temporary balm. You will return to the rat race unchanged.
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