Spiritual Concentration and Meditation Methods

With concentration you must pierce through like an oxygen torch. The form. So, until you don't do it. So, this is a direct method. To say well, instead of changing the method, I change the subject. That is, I strengthen the subject, the instrument, so that then whatever it does, it meditates in a certain way because it has reached a certain level of intensity, ok? Of concentration. If not, however, if I like iconography for example, I can do it with iconography. Why? Because with concentration on colors, on the subject, on the theme, iconography is total, ok? That is, a total ascesis because with color, behind color there are worlds and exceptional realities. Like white for example. That is, there are of incredible depth, ok? So if one does an iconographic retreat, a perfect, total ascesis. One could do it with chanting, ok? With music. The point is simply that music is also perfect because it involves you physically, emotionally. It could also involve you psychically, spiritually. So all your composition, all your personality, puts all your strength to surpass this, this line, to pierce the body, ok? So also direct method. One of these is concentration. That is, to develop, to help oneself with techniques and exercises to become possessors of one's own attention and will, ok? So this is and above all it's not so difficult, in the sense that it takes time but anyway well, one does much more difficult things in the sense that it's enough. It's like when you go to, how do you say, to the gym. You give yourself an objective. You must be very critical. That is, try to do local minds what you want to do. You give yourself six months, you do exercises. If you do it once a week, well, it's already something. If you do it every day, ok. It's enough to put attention, concentration and a critical aspect. Constancy. That's why he says have your will strengthened because in the current state normally one gets distracted. That is, you say yes I want to do this and then there's... and you got distracted and five years have passed. No, because you have to fight against the whole world that wants you to do this state, of state, of state to then steal your life because then you must. Yes but the point is if they are your priorities, that's one thing. If they are priorities that instead are not even yours... Because if one says they are personal... No but I'm doing it for example. If I say I want to drink a glass of water. I want to drink a glass of water. That is, I want it. It's an exercise of strengthening the will, even of the ego and capacity. Because normally I drink a glass of water but I'm not even the one who wanted to drink it. Then in that case it's not a strengthening. It's a strengthening of something else on me, ok? It's the same thing, that is, there are many things one can do. Everything. It's enough that it's him who wants to do it and not life that proposes things to you for which one gets transported like a postal package, ok? Like that. And he carries it. There's also this possibility here. Or like a train that has a track and one to change, to change the track, one must make an effort because one has a karma, has an evolution in which he is born, a situation in which the track is indicated. Being conscious even only in two or three key moments of one's life to change or change the situation is not trivial because clearly as soon as you try you must... It's like Newton's law. The body moves in uniform rectilinear motion. If you want to move you must apply a force but there's an equal one in the opposite direction. So depending on how much you want to change in your life you must make a powerful effort because if you really change something in your life... If everything goes there it doesn't mean you're not changing anything. You're going straight in uniform rectilinear motion. So... I have a question. I think that in meditation thoughts discover and you however don't identify with thoughts. However instead concentration, fixity on a thought, what is the passage? It's very simple. In the moments when you're concentrating on a thought, ok? Let's see. Let's do this. If we do the cup. What is a cup, ok? It represents wisdom. The heart that gathers wisdom, for example. Concentrate on this idea that gathers wisdom, that gathers wisdom, so that for example you can concentrate on these ideas so the cup is of gold because there's the divine presence, there's a whole series of gems because they are virtues, they are the various aspects of the virtues of the holy spirit, they are of various colors because there are all the aspects: fortitude, counsel, all these things you're repeating, at a certain point however when meditation enters, practically the rational part you're not even following anymore, there isn't any and you're launched into intention, without form for which the concentration part on a series of aspects that you studied on the cup can be the shoulder, the thing, whatever you want, they serve you to put attention but then at a certain point this new reality enters which is like a psychic tension, an intention that then opens into this other plane. So, all that unfolds in the rational aspect you can continue to repeat it or not? It has no value. How has no value? Because images can also come, things can appear, they have no value. For example if you have a mystical experience of a certain type you could also see, for example, see, in the sense appear in the mind let's say, thousands of diamond flowers, diamond children with a bridge, no? But the images that come out to you are not, have no value. These are visualizations that the emotional body, your emotional mental personality produces for you, brings before you.