"Do we really think of negative things all the time?" asked Ruslan.
"Of course," Sensei answered. "Just follow your thoughts carefully. People spend a lot of time visualizing various conflict situations and negative memories of the past; they picture themselves arguing with someone or proving something to someone, how they cheat or hit back. They worry about their illnesses, material deprivations and so on. In other words, they always have a negative mindset.
However, during this practice, a person intentionally, by means of internal control gets rid of all these negative thoughts. The more often he has a positive mindset, the faster this seed of Love grows in him. First of all, imagine this seed starting to grow, and a small stalk appears. It grows further, leaves cover the stalk, and then comes a small flower bud. Finally, after receiving of the power of Love more and more, the bud blossoms into a lotus flower. The flower is golden at first, but as it grows it becomes dazzling white."
"How long does it take for the flower to sprout?" I asked.
"Actually, it depends on the person. For some people it takes years, for others just months, or days, or even seconds. It all depends on your desire, on the efforts you make. You need not only to grow this flower, but also to continuously take care of it with the power of your Love so that it doesn't wither and die. This constant feeling of nurturing should be kept at the subconscious level or, to be more precise, at the level of controllable, remote consciousness. The more Love one gives to this little flower, cherishes it in his mind, takes care of it, protects it from the negative surrounding influence, the more it grows. This flower is nourished with the energy of Love, and I emphasize, your inner energy of Love. And the more a person is present in this state of Love to the whole world, to everyone and everything around him, the bigger the flower gets. But if a person gets angry, the flower becomes weak; if he flies into a rage, the flower withers, falls ill. Then you need to make every effort to revive it. It is a kind of control.
So, when the flower blooms and starts getting bigger, it begins to radiate vibrations instead of fragrance, the so-called leptons or gravitons, call them as you like, in other words, the energy of Love. You feel its moving petals that make your whole body and the space around you vibrate, radiating Love and Harmony to the world.'
"Is it somehow felt on the physical level?" Eugene asked.
"Yes. The Lotus can be felt as a burning in the area of the solar plexus, spreading heat. That is to say, these feelings arise in the area of the solar plexus where, as legends say, the soul resides. Heat starts spreading from there. The whole point is that no matter where you are, whomever you may be with, no matter what you do or think about, you must always feel this heat, the heat, which, figuratively speaking, warms not only your body but your soul as well. This inner concentration of Love is located in the flower. Ultimately, the more one takes care of it, praises this love, the more he feels this flower expanding and completely surrounding his body with its petals until he is standing inside a huge lotus.
And then it comes to a very important point. When you reach the stage when the Lotus petals surround you from all sides, you feel two flowers. One of them is inside you under your heart, it warms you all the time with the feeling of inner Love. The other flower, the bigger one, is like an astral shell of this flower -- it surrounds you and, on the one hand, radiates the vibration of Love to the world. On the other, it protects you from the negative influence of other people. The cause and effect law works here. Translating it into the language of physics, a wave effect takes place. Putting it simply, man radiates the waves of the good, greatly amplifying them through his soul and thus creating a blissful wave field. You feel this wave field all the time and support it with your heart and soul, your Love. At the same time, it has a positive impact not only on you, but also on the surrounding world.
This is what happens when you practice it daily. To begin with, a person constantly controls his thoughts, learns to focus on the positive, so by default, he cannot wish ill to anyone or be bad because this is a daily practice for every single moment of your whole life. It is a sort of a distraction technique as you you mustn't use force against negative thoughts. Love cannot be forced; therefore you switch your attention. If a negative or an unwanted thought comes, concentrate on your flower, start giving your Love to it, and therefore, you artificially forget about all the negativity, or you can think of something else, something positive. But you must feel the flower all the time: going to bed, getting up, at night, during the day, whatever you do, when you study, work, do sports, etc. You feel Love flaring up, feel the currents of Love moving in your chest and speading through your body. You feel the flower warming you from the inside; it is a special kind of warmth, the divine warmth of Love. The more of this Love you give away, the bigger it grows. When he is constantly radiating this Love, man sees people from the position of Love, so, secondly, which is very important - you tune in to the frequency of the good.
The good means luck; it is success and health. It means everything! You start feeling happier, which has a positive impact on your mind. And it is the central nervous system that is the main regulator of the body's vital activity. That's why, first of all, this spiritual practice improves your health. Besides, your life gets better as you start finding reconciliation with everyone. Nobody wants to argue with you, you are welcome everywhere. You won't have any major problems. Why is it like that? Because even if things happen, as life is life, you start looking at them from a completely different point of view than ordinary people. You get a new vision of life that helps you find the optimal decision for your situation. Because life's wisdom awakens in you.
Thirdly, most importantly, the soul awakens in the person. He starts feeling like a Man who begins to understand what God is, that is, an all-encompassing substance, and not just a fantasy of a few idiots. You start feeling the divine presence in yourself and you strengthen this power with your positive thoughts and feelings. You do not feel alone in this world anymore as God is within and with you, you feel His real presence. There is a saying, 'If you are in Love, you are in God, and God is in you as God is Love.’ It is also very important that you start feeling the aura of the flower that is inside and outside of you."
"How is the aura felt around the body?" Stas asked.
"Over time, you will see this vibration around you as glowing light. The air will seem to be brighter and clearer, and the surrounding world will turn more intense in its colours. The most fascinating thing is that people will start noticing these transformations in you. There is a common expression, "a man glows, shines". That is actually the glow of this wave field generated by the person's Love. People around him also start feeling this field. They are glad when this Man is near them; they also start feeling joy, an inner excitement. Many people recover. They feel better in his mere presence, however sick they are. Everyone is attracted to this person and opens their hearts and souls to him. That is, people feel Love. It is the heart's open gate towards God. This is what all the great souls said and what Jesus meant when he said, 'Open your heart to God.'
'The Lotus' has been practiced since the beginning of time. Since the days of old it has been believed to give life to the gods and that god awakens in the Lotus. This means the divine essence - the soul - is awakened in the 'Lotus Flower', in the Harmony and Love within you, because a person is always taking care of his flower, continuously monitoring his thoughts and feelings so that the flower does not wither.
"So, does a real flower grow there?" Slava asked surprised.
"No. The material flower does not exist there, of course. It is a work of imagination. This process has other names: awakening to divine Love, reaching enlightenment, full union with God - 'moksha', 'tao', 'shinto'. Call it as you like. But all of this is just words and religion. While here you simply create a certain force field with your positive thoughts and feelings of Love. On the one hand, this field affects the world around you, and on the other, it alters an individual's frequency of brain perception."
"What about the soul?" I asked.
"The soul is you, you can call it a kind of eternal generator of divine power, if you like, but it needs to be activated by your constant thoughts of Love... One day I will tell you about the soul and its purpose in detail."
Then Kostya joined the discussion, "You said that this spiritual practice is ancient. How old is it?"
"I have already mentioned that it has existed as long as man has existed as a conscious being."
"Ok, well, how long, seven, ten thousand years?"
"That's too short of a period. Mankind in the civilized version has existed many times before, even with much more advanced technologies than now. Another thing is why these civilizations disappeared. Someday I'll tell you about that, too."
"If this practice is so old, there should be some memory of it in our civilization."
"Certainly. The fact that the spiritual practice of 'the Lotus Flower' has existed for so long can be proven by various ancient sources. The Lotus was given, for example, to some Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. And if you do a research here, you will find evidence that Egyptian myths and legends say that even their Sun god Ra was born out of the lotus flower. This flower served as a throne for Isis, Horus, and Osiris.
In the ancient Vedas, the oldest Hindu books written in Sanskrit, the Lotus is one of the central themes. In particular, regarding the three main male incarnations of God – Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Protector, and Shiva the Destroyer – they say the following, 'The body of God Vishnu gave life to a giant golden lotus with the "lotus born" Brahma the Creator on it. The golden thousand petal lotus grew, and the Universe expanded with it.'
In China and India, this flower stands for purity and chastity. The best human qualities and aspirations are associated with the lotus flower. In China, they think that there is a special Western heaven with a lotus lake and that every flower growing there is bound to the soul of a dead person. If an individual was virtuous, his flower blossoms, otherwise, the flower withers.
In Greece, the lotus plant is dedicated to the goddess Hera. Hercules made his voyage in a golden solar lotus shaped boat.
However, all these are legends and myths, though they have their basis. They appeared because of the real facts of people's self-improvement, thanks to this ancient spiritual practice. The thing is that previously when the animal nature dominated the majority of people, "the Lotus Flower" was made known only to the chosen ones, spiritually mature individuals. It is natural that others later saw these people as gods. Since the person with a blooming "Lotus" is an awakened soul, he actually becomes godlike, because he creates in Love with just his thought.
When the time was right to spiritually enlighten a great number of people, the Bodhisattvas of Shambala gave this spiritual practice to Buddha. It is while practicing the Lotus technique that Siddhartha Gautama reached enlightenment sitting under the Bodhi tree. With Rigden's permission, Buddha gave it to his disciples for further dissemination among people. Unfortunately, later the teachings of Buddha were distorted, and a whole religion was created based on this practice. This led to Buddhists imagining their paradise as an unusual place where people are born like gods on the lotus flower. They are searching for this place, though it is always inside them. They made God out of Buddha, but in reality he was just a man who had learned the truth through this spiritual practice. So this is how the Lotus became the symbol of Buddhism and the expression, ’Buddha sits in a lotus’ or ‘Buddha stands in a lotus' appeared. His example simply showed to people what an individual can reach by defeating his animal nature. He really did a lot for the spiritual evolution of mankind by spreading this spiritual practice among people in its original form.
A similar prayer was given to people by Jesus Christ to awaken to divine Love.
"Does it mean that prayer and meditation are the same thing?" Tatyana asked.
"Actually, yes. Jesus' prayer "Our Father" is the same. Things are quite ordinary there, people ask for bread and so on, but the main point is the same: man grows spiritually on his own, he nurtures his soul by controlling his thoughts, with his desire, his firm Belief and Love.
In general, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, and all the great souls possessed the knowledge of this spiritual practice, as they used the same source. This helped them not only to become themselves but also help others know their divine nature. Why was it so pleasant for all to be near Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed? Why are saints said to shine? Why when we sometimes meet a total stranger we don't want to leave them? Because they radiate this Love. Because they have always strengthened this power, the power of good, the power of Love, the power of this divine presence in man. They say that God is in this man. And so it is."
"So, you just need to think of this flower with Love?" Andrew asked.
"No. You should not only concentrate and think about it, but most importantly, generate this feeling of warmth in the area of the solar plexus and maintain it at all times with your positive thoughts. Not everyone will be able to do it right away. Because you need to get to the core of it all, to imagine in a more realistic way, awaken all those feelings. Why do I draw your attention to this? Because when a person evokes these feelings, he starts supporting them not just with his mind but also on the level of his sub-mind, or his subconscious. This leads to the awakening of the soul. It is sure to awaken. The more Love you give to it, the more it will unfold, the more you will become yourself like you have always been inside, and not in your external mortal shell."
After a pause, Sensei added, "Life is too short, and you'd better hurry to praise the spiritual essence in your heart."
Extract from the book "Sensei of Shambala. Part 1" and "Spiritual Practices and Meditations" by Anastasia Novykh. Translated from Russian by flamedragon27.blogspot.com
PS. Thom Yorke on the Lotus Flower:
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