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Drink from the common pot of Knowledge and aim to extend Awareness in all beings throughout space-time and beyond.

Take your shoes off, lower the eyes or close them, sit on the ground with your back as straight as an arrow, both legs should be crossed, or in half or in full lotus, or kneeling. (If these postures are too difficult sit up straight on a backless chair). Avoid meditating lying down unless you're ill.

Think neither of the past nor the future, do not analyse, initiate or engage in conversations or fantasies with yourself. Let the body be as tranquil as a sleeping babe and the mind in its natural state. When a thought arises relax more, note it, chop it down, root and all, and continue meditating. Try by mental alertness to arrest the thought process so that not even a single idea should arise. Through this meditation practice one understands the arising and passing away of thoughts and emotions. It leads one to freedom from the tyranny of thought, resembling one who is at rest sitting by a riverbank watching the river flow past.

In the next meditation practice be indifferent to the thoughts, allowing them to do as they please. Do not attempt to prevent them, nor fall under their spell. Be aware also of the flow of breath without interfering with it or becoming hypnotised by its rhythm. Eventually, in meditation, thoughts will cease to arise and the mind will become one-pointed. Under those conditions the original true nature may arise of its own accord.