The Library

Volume 1, Perspectives, includes notes from all 28 categories

• 4. Elementary Meditation

  9 Aug 2021

  • Utrzymywanie jakiejkolwiek idei w umyśle podczas medytacji i utrzymywanie jej z wiarą, współczuciem i przyjemnością, to uczynienie jej częścią samego siebie. Jeśli zadba się o to, aby te idee były pozytywne, konstruktywne i wzniosłe, korzyści z medytacji ujawnią się w charakterze i osobowości.

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Volume 2

• 1. Overview of the Quest
  • Chapter
  • 1. What the Quest Is
  • 2. Its Choice
  • 3. Independent Path
  • 4. Organized Groups
  • 5. Self-Development
  • 6. Student-Teacher
  
  

Volume 3

• 2. Overview of Practices Involved
  • Chapter
  • 1. Ant's Long Path
  • 2. The Measure of Progress
  • 3. Uncertainties of Progress
  • 4. Practise Mental Discipline
  • 5. Balance the Psyche
  • 6. Self-Reflection and Action
  • 7. Discipline Desires
  • 8. The Quest and Social Responsibility
  • 9. Conclusion
  
  
• 3. Relax and Retreat
  • Chapter
  • 1. Take Intermittent Pauses
  • 2. Withdraw from Tension and Pressure
  • 3. Relax Body, Breath, Mind
  • 4. Retreat Centres
  • 5. Solitude
  • 6. Nature Appreciation
  • 7. Sunset Contemplation
  
  

Volume 4

• 4. Elementary Meditation
  • Chapter
  • 1. Preparatory
  • 2. Place and Condition
  • 3. Fundamentals
  • 4. Meditative Thinking
  • 5. Visualizations, Symbols
  • 6. Mantrams, Affirmations
  • 7. Mindfulness, Mental Quiet
  
  
• 5. The Body
  • Chapter
  • 1. Prefatory
  • 2. The Body
  • 3. Diet
  • 4. Fasting
  • 5. Exercise
  • 6. Breathing Exercises
  • 7. Sex
  • 8. Kundalini
  • 9. Prayer
  
  

Volume 5

• 6. Emotions and Ethics
  • Chapter
  • 1. Uplift Character
  • 2. Re-Educate Feelings
  • 3. Discipline Emotions
  • 4. Purify Passions
  • 5. Spiritual Refinement
  • 6. Avoid Fanaticism
  • 7. Miscellaneous Ethical Issues
  
  
• 7. The Intellect
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Place of Intellect
  • 2. The Service of Intellect
  • 3. The Development of Intellect
  • 4. Abstract Thought
  • 5. Semantics
  • 6. Science
  • 7. Metaphysics of Truth
  • 8. Intellect, Reality, and The Overself
  
  

Volume 6

• 8. The Ego
  • Chapter
  • 1. What Am I
  • 2. I-thought
  • 3. Psyche
  • 4. Detaching from The Ego
  
  
• 9. From Birth to Rebirth
  • Chapter
  • 1. Death, Dying, and Immortality
  • 2. Rebirth and Reincarnation
  • 3. Laws and Patterns of Experience
  • 4. Free Will, Responsibility, and The World-Idea
  
  

Volume 7

• 10. Healing of the Self
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Laws of Nature
  • 2. The Universal Life Force
  • 3. The Origins of Illness
  • 4. Healers of The Body and Mind
  • 5. The Healing Power of The Overself
  
  
• 11. The Negatives
  • Chapter
  • 1. Their Nature
  • 2. Their Roots in Ego
  • 3. Their Presence in The World
  • 4. In Thoughts, Feelings, Violent Passions
  • 5. Their Visible and Invisible Harm
  
  

Volume 8

• 12. Reflections
  • Chapter
  • 1. Two Essays
  • 2. Philosophy and Contemporary Culture
  • 3. Encounter With Destiny
  • 4. Reflections On Truth
  • 5. The Literary Work
  • 6. The Profane and The Profound
  
  

Volume 9

• 13. Human Experience
  • Chapter
  • 1. Situation
  • 2. Living in The World
  • 3. Youth and Age
  • 4. World Crisis
  
  
• 14. The Arts in Culture
  • Chapter
  • 1. Appreciation
  • 2. Creativity, Genius
  • 3. Art Experience and Mysticism
  • 4. Reflections On Specific Arts
  
  

Volume 10

• 15. The Orient
  • Chapter
  • 1. Meetings of East and West
  • 2. India
  • 3. China, Japan, Tibet
  • 4. Ceylon, Angkor Wat, Burma, Java
  • 5. Islamic Cultures, Egypt
  • 6. Related Entries
  
  

Volume 11

• 16. The Sensitives
  • Chapter
  • 1. Mystical Life in The Modern World
  • 2. Phases of Mystical Development
  • 3. Philosophy, Mysticism, and The Occult
  • 4. Those Who Seek
  • 5. Pseudo and Imperfect Teachers
  • 6. Delusions and Painful Awakenings
  • 7. The Path of Individuality
  • 8. Christian Science, Other Spiritual Movements
  • 9. Inspiration and Confusion
  • 10. The Is Is Not an Ism
  • 11. Fanaticism, Money, Powers, Drugs"
  • 12. The Intermediate Zone
  • 13. The Occult
  • 14. The Sensitive Mind
  • 15. Illuminations
  
  

Volume 12

• 17. The Religious Urge
  • Chapter
  • 1. Origin, Purpose of Religions
  • 2. Organization, Content of Religion
  • 3. Religion As Preparatory
  • 4. Problems of Organized Religion
  • 5. Comments On Specific Religions
  • 6. Philosophy and Religion
  • 7. Beyond Religion As We Know It
  
  
• 18. The Reverential Life
  • Chapter
  • 1. Devotion
  • 2. Prayer
  • 3. Humility
  • 4. Surrender
  • 5. Grace
  
  

Volume 13

• 19. The Reign of Relativity
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Cosmos of Change
  • 2. The Double Standpoint
  • 3. The States of Consciousness
  • 4. Time, Space, Causality
  • 5. The Void As Metaphysical Fact
  
  
• 20. What Is Philosophy?
  • Chapter
  • 1. Toward Defining Philosophy
  • 2. Its Contemporary Influence
  • 3. Its Requirements
  • 4. Its Realization Beyond Ecstasy
  • 5. The Philosopher
  
  
• 21. Mentalism
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Sensed World
  • 2. The World As Mental
  • 3. The Individual and World Mind
  • 4. The Challenge of Mentalism
  • 5. The Key To the Spiritual World
  
  

Volume 14

• 22. Inspiration and the Overself
  • Chapter
  • 1. Intuition the Beginning
  • 2. Inspiration
  • 3. The Overself's Presence
  • 4. Introduction To Mystical Glimpses
  • 5. Preparing for Glimpses
  • 6. Experiencing a Glimpse
  • 7. After the Glimpse
  • 8. Glimpses and Permanent Illumination
  
  

Volume 15

• 23. Advanced Contemplation
  • Chapter
  • 1. Entering the Short Path
  • 2. Pitfalls and Limitations
  • 3. The Dark Night of The Soul
  • 4. The Changeover To the Short Path
  • 5. Balancing the Paths
  • 6. Advanced Meditation
  • 7. Contemplative Stillness
  • 8. The Void As Contemplative Experience
  
  
• 24. The Peace Within You
  • Chapter
  • 1. The Search for Happiness
  • 2. Be Calm
  • 3. Practise Detachment
  • 4. Seek the Deeper Stillness
  
  

Volume 16

• 25. World-Mind in Individual Mind
  • Chapter
  • 1. Their Meeting and Interchange
  • 2. Enlightenment Which Stays
  • 3. The Sage
  • 4. The Sage's Service
  • 5. Teaching Masters, Discipleship
  
  
• 26. World-Idea
  • Chapter
  • 1. Divine Order of The Universe
  • 2. Change As Universal Activity
  • 3. Polarities, Complementaries, Dualities of The Universe
  • 4. True Idea of Man
  
  
• 27. World-Mind
  • Chapter
  • 1. What Is God?
  • 2. Nature of World-Mind
  • 3. World-Mind and ``Creation``'
  
  
• 28. The Alone
  • Chapter
  • 1. Absolute Mind
  • 2. Our Relation To the Absolute