He answered me, ‘Blessed are you for not wavering at seeing me. I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to him, ‘Lord, I saw you today in a vision.’ This teaching is also mentioned numerous times in the gnostic Gospels.įor example, in the Gospel of Mary, a gnostic text found in Egypt in 1896, Mary describes to the other disciples the secret teaching on the mind she received from Jesus after the resurrection: In the Bible we’re told, “Let the mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phil. Tapping into this level of mind gives us the pristine awareness of the Tibetan lamas, who are said to receive direct teachings from the Buddha by a process they call “pure vision.” Also called the “mind of clear light,” this nonconceptual mind is accessed through deep meditation. The very subtle mind, called rigpa, is the root, or universal, mind. We access alaya, the subtle mind, when we sleep and dream. The gross, or conceptual, mind is our day-to-day waking mind. Their scriptures also make a distinction between three levels of mental awareness-the gross mind, the subtle mind, and the very subtle mind. Students are told, “When you realize your own mind you will become a Buddha you should not seek Buddhahood elsewhere.” Their scriptures make a distinction between two types of mind: the rational, or conceptual, mind and the nonconceptual, or wisdom, mind, also referred to as “buddha nature.” The teachings on the mind are also central to the practice of Buddhism. The second is the illumined mind, which he calls “the mind of light” or “vision.” The third is the intuitive mind, and the fourth is the divine or “supermind”-the level of cosmic consciousness where “the ego-sense is subordinated, lost in the largeness of being… a wide cosmic perception and the feeling of a boundless universal self replaces it.” The first step beyond the rational mind is the higher, or abstract, mind. In The Life Divineand other books, he presents his teaching on the mind. Aurobindo also teaches that the next evolution in nature is our transition from human intelligence to superconscious awareness. The third section focuses on mind control and the need to develop a one-pointed focus of attention, and the fourth covers the stage of universal consciousness.Ī more recent teaching on the mind can be found in the work of Sri Aurobindo, a twentieth-century Hindu master. In the second, he includes practices for contacting the soul. In the first section, Patanjali provides instructions for quieting the mind and emotions. The Yoga Sutras contains four sections, or “books,” on the higher functions of the mind. We then have direct access to the subtle worlds where information on all subjects can be found. When we train the lower mind to make contact with the soul, the soul transmits information from the higher mind to our brains. The soul, our gateway to the higher worlds, is the link between our higher and lower minds. In this classic book, Patanjali explained that the mind has two levels-the lower or rational mind and the higher or intuitive mind. Once taught in the ancient mystery schools of Egypt, Greece, Babylon and India, this wisdom was first put into book form by the Hindu sage Patanjali in his book, The Yoga Sutras. This ageless wisdom, called the sanatana dharma, or the “eternal teaching” by the Hindus, can also be found in Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and Islam. The teaching on the higher potential of the human mind lies at the heart of all of our spiritual traditions. The following article is excerpted from Spiritual Telepathy: Ancient Techniques to Access the Wisdom of Your Soul by Colleen Mauro (Quest Books, March 2015).
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