There are essentially three stages in learning how to meditate. In the beginning you are simply trying to ignore thought.

In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.

The state between birth and death is not sympathetic. It is a flow system. Whatever your conscious level is, that is how you will reincarnate.

There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them.

If your power is decreasing then you have to do something about it right away.