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Passages similar to: The Secret of the Golden Flower — Circulation of the Light and Protection of the Centre
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Taoist
The Secret of the Golden Flower
Circulation of the Light and Protection of the Centre (13)
Fixating contemplation (13) is a Buddhist method which by no means has been handed down as a secret.
Hindu
Book III (3)
When the perceiving consciousness in this meditative is wholly given to illuminating the essential meaning of the object contemplated, and is freed...
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Hindu
Book III (11)
The gradual conquest of the mind’s tendency to flit from one object to another, and the power of one-pointedness, make the development of...
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Hindu
Book III (2)
A prolonged holding of the perceiving consciousness in that region is meditation (dhyana).
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The General Conclusion (41.8)
The Doctrine is one which liberateth by being seen, without need of meditation or of sadhana; this Profound Teaching liberateth by being heard or by...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introduction (11.13)
Those sentient beings who have been reached by it cannot go to the unhappy states.
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Hindu
Book III (7)
This threefold power, of Attention, Meditation, Contemplation, is more interior than the means of growth previously described.
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Hindu
Book IV (6)
Among states of consciousness, that which is born of Contemplation is free from the seed of future sorrow.
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Dawning of the Lights of the Six Lokas (27.4)
O nobly-born, the special art of these teachings is especially important at this moment: whichever light shineth upon thee now, meditate upon it as...
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Buddhist
Chapter 5: Watchfulness (3)
The thought thus must be kept ever under watch; I must always be as if without carnal sense, like a thing of wood. The eyes must never glance around...
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Hindu
Book III (4)
When these three, Attention, Meditation Contemplation, are exercised at once, this is perfectly concentrated Meditation (sanyama).
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Bardo Body: Its Birth and Its Supernormal Faculties (23.9)
Up to the other day thou wert unable to recognize the Chonyid Bardo and hast had to wander down this far. Now, if thou art to hold fast to the real...
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Hindu
Book III (5)
By mastering this perfectly concentrated Meditation, there comes the illumination of perception.
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Fifth Method of Closing the Womb-Door (34.1-34.2)
Still, even when this is done, if the holding [phenomena] as real remaineth undissolved, the womb- door is not closed; and, if one be ready to enter...
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Hindu
Book II (26)
A discerning which is carried on without wavering is the means of liberation.
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Hindu
Book III (19)
By perfectly concentrated Meditation on mind-images is gained the understanding of the thoughts of others.
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Method of Preventing Entry into a Womb (29.2)
Then, causing the [visualized form of the] tutelary deity to melt away from the extremities, meditate, without any thought-forming, upon the vacuous...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: The Conclusion, Showing the Fundamental Importance of the Bardo Teachings (19.2)
Again, the meditation on the deities of the Mystic Path of the Mantra, [both in the] visualizing and the perfecting stages, while living, will be of...
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Tibetan Buddhist
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: The Protection Against the Tormenting Furies (37.7)
At this time, if one can recollect the Great Symbol [teachings] concerning the Voidness, that will be best. If one be not trained in that, train the...
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Hindu
Book III (47)
Mastery over the powers of perception and action comes through perfectly concentrated Meditation on their fivefold forms; namely, their power to...
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Western Esoteric
Chapter VII: The All in All (11)
The ancient Hermetists use the word "Meditation" in describing the process of the mental creation of the Universe in the Mind of THE ALL, the word...
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