Lesson 5
Types of Meditation
My love, there is so much you can do in your spiritual practice. Try different things and see what works for you. Follow your intuition and choose where to focus, where to dig your hole.
Just know that if you dig many holes in many places, you are less likely to find water. Compared to if you dig deep in one place. My humble suggestion is therefore, to at least for a time, try one thing.
There are many kinds of meditations and energy practices that one can do to assist the Kundalini awakening and general health of body and mind, but if we want to put ourselves in a state that supports a more or less active Kundalini energy to clear and transform, evolve our consciousness & lead to liberation, returning to your inner sanctum and surrender to the grace of divine intelligence is the most efficient meditation that I know to suggest.
There are specific meditation techniques, pointers, from the tantras (Vigyan Bhairava) that help you achieve one-pointedness, which in turn leads to a state of open abiding. You Inner Sanctum state.
Three types
As per Kashmir Shaivist tantras there are three levels of support given to consciousness in meditations, and they are suitable for differently able minds and stages of the development of consciousness.
They are all VERY potent and that is why I insist on sharing them.
A technique that is giving the most suitable support for your consciousness and ability to achieve one-pointedness is the best for you to immerse in.
There are of course more meditation techniques, styles and flavors out there, and you should follow your intuition in what to do. In the end, it is the meditation technique that YOU find most supportive that will be the best for you.
Āṇavopāya (the Way of Action)
Tangible support
For a mind that is easily distracted and find it too abstract to directly sense into voidness and prefers feeling the body or focus on points in the body or external objects.
If you have not experienced any Kundalini activity, or if you have an awakened Kundalini.
Śāktopāya (the Way of Knowledge)
Subtle support
For a mind that can sense into an inner stillness easily.
If you have an awakened Kundalini, in any stage of the process.
Śāmbhavopāya (the Way of Will)
No support
For a mind that can absorb into voidness quite easily.
If you have an awakened Kundalini, in any stage of the process, but the Shambhavopaya techniques are most accessible if the Kundalini unfolding occurs mostly in the upper chakras.
