PRESCRIPTIONS FOR TIMES OF
CRISES
Tomado de REFLEXIONS
ON THE PATH (1986) by Herbert B. Puriyear, Ph.D. Bantam Books Inc.
Based upon the readins
of the Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce Pags: 192-210
Someone asked Edgar Cayce, "Are my meditations bringing results?" And the answer was, "Keep that consciousness that in Him all things are done well." (281-4) Cayce shifted the emphasis away from the proper technique of meditation to the sense of the confidence of the power of God to effect change in our lives.
Another point: The Secret of the Golden Flower says, "All holy men have bequeathed this one to another: all methods end in silence." We know historically that Christians meditators, Buddhist meditators, Hindu meditators, and Sufi meditators, have all had glorious and life-transforming experiences. In our attempts to be broad-minded and generous to the position of the other fellow, we may come to a notion that it does not matter how we practice meditation. One technique is as good as another; what is important is just that we meditate. I am not so sure of this! It is only by going to the very hert of these tachings that we may find the Oneness. There are not all the same at the superficial level. So I do not think all the approaches to meditation are of the same value.
This leads us to a consideration of the importance of motivation. We have stressed time and again the importance of the ideal. But we have talked so much about writing down the ideals that we may get a sense that the ideal is something out there on a piece of paper instead of the living quality of spirit going on withing us. It is hoped that by putting our ideals on paper, we can take a major step toward awakening the highest spirit within us. We have the potential within us for manifold motivations; but is is the motivation of love that selects the circuitry, if our bodies are to be as instruments through which the One Force may flow. The selection of that circuitry affects not only the experience we may have but also what we may manifest in our lives! And so the setting of motivation, the awakening of the motivation, is of the utmost importance in meditation.BACK TO THE BEGINING OF THIS DOCUMENT
