This suggested meditation is the practice of unifying opposites. In The Bliss of Inner Fire Private or Broken Links
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, Lama yeshe suggests a tantric meditation of normalizing our reactions by imaging people we hate and people we love and feeling the same towards them both.
Aleister CrowleyAleister Crowley
, and Austin Osman SpareAustin Osman Spare
30 December 1886 – 15 May 1956
English artist and occultist. Briefly cohort of Aleister Crowley but the two had a falling out.
Wrote on Desires , primordial magic, genius and madness
both make similar suggestions. Spare notes that by unifying an idea with it's opposite there is a release of magical energy, what he calls belief, and this energy can then be reincorporated and applied to the willed outcome.
Here is a simple explanation of the technique:
- Hold attention on multiple opposing images or ideas
- Hold these ideas with no value judgement or reaction until they become completely equal in the mind
- When these sperate ideas appear to be ONE then direct my Will to Love that single idea
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Here is the method of Love in Meditation. **Let the Aspirant first practice and then discipline himself in the Art of fixing the attention upon any thing whatsoever at will, without permitting the least imaginable distraction**.
Let him also practice the art of the Analysis of Ideas, and that of refusing to allow the mind its natural reaction to them, pleasant or unpleasant, thus fixing himself in Simplicity and Indifference. These things being achieved in their ripe season, be it known to you that all ideas will have become equal to your apprehension, since each is simple and each indifferent: any one of them remaining in the mind at Will without stirring or striving, or tending to pass on to any other. But each idea will possess one special quality common to all: this, that no one of any of them is The Self, inasmuch as it is perceived by The Self as Something Opposite.
When this is thorough and profound in the impact of its realization, then is the moment for the aspirant to direct his Will to Love upon it, so that his whole consciousness findeth focus upon that One Idea. And at the first it may be fixed and dead, or lightly held. This may then pass into dryness, or into repulsion. Then at last by pure persistence in that Act of Will to Love, shall Love himself arise, as a bird, as a flame, as a song, and the whole Soul shall wing a fiery path of music unto the Ultimate Heaven of Possession.
Austin Osman Spare, The Book of PleasureAustin Osman Spare, The Book of Pleasure
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by Austin Osman Spare
pub 1913
This book deals deeply with desire and belief. Spare suggests many practices but his fundamental theories are based around some core ideas:
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Perceive, and feel without the necessity of an opposite, but by its relative. Perceive light without shadow by its own colour as contrast, through evoking the emotion of laughter at the time of ecstasy in union, and by practice till that emotion is untiring and subtle.