Abstract Thinking: [35.07] - Practice & Technique - The Anupreksha of Straightforwardness

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Subject

minutes

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Mahaprana Dhvani

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Kayotsarga (Self-Awareness by Relaxation)

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Drink in the reddish-brown colour with each inhalation. As you breathe in, visualize that atoms of reddish-brown are entering your body.

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Practise reddish-brown meditation on the Centre of Intuition.

• That is, focus your attention on the Centre of Intuition (located in the middle of the eyebrows), visualiing that your whole being is bathed in reddish-brown colour.

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Keep your attention focussed on the Centre of Intuition, suggesting to yourself:

• "Straightforwardness is developing; crookedness is waning."

Repeat the above sentence aloud 9 times; and then repeat it mentally 9 times.

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Pursue your contemplation as follows:

• Straightforwardness and truth are inevitably linked with each other.
• Wherever there is straightforwardness, there is truth and wherever there is truth, there is straightforwardness.
• Without straightforwardness, truth is unimaginable.
• Only straightforward persons can rightly communicate their feelings to others and also rightly appreciate other people's feelings.
• Only straightforward persons can bridge the gap between word and deed.
• Straightforwardness is a great humane virtue.
• I firmly resolve to cultivate it in myself.

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Complete the exercise with the recitation of Mahaprana Dhvani.

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