The Law of Attention: Nada Yoga and the Way of Inner VigilanceHow to achieve a direct inner experience of your higher nature and the after-death state from which you originate and will return • Provides techniques for listening to the primordial sound within • Offers yoga and meditation techniques that are still little known in the West This book--at once simple and powerful--stands as a monument to the lifelong spiritual struggles of Edward Salim Michael, struggles that he heroically surmounted on his path to enlightenment. Due to the circumstances of his birth, Michael had no education, no mother tongue, and no book learning when he was drafted at the age of 19 into the British Royal Air Force during World War II. After learning to read and write he became an accomplished classical composer in France. In 1949, after seeing a statue of a Buddha for the first time, he experienced a powerful awakening of his innate Buddha Nature, which inspired him to begin a sustained and extremely disciplined meditation practice. Michael abandoned his career as a composer and went to India, the home of his maternal grandmother, where he lived for seven years fully focused on his spiritual awakening. Michael’s spiritual teachings reveal techniques of yoga and meditation that can open the door to one’s higher nature and to directly experience the after-death state. Nada yoga (meditation on the inner sound) is one of the core techniques for this realization. There is a vast luminous consciousness already within us, but it is obscured by the clouds of our incessant thoughts. With sincerity, moral integrity, and inner vigilance, which, when embodied, implies that we have internalized the basic tenets of the law of attention, we can move beyond the promptings of our lower nature and break through the clouds of our ordinary mind to realize our own divine nature. Emphasizing inner attention and an awareness of attitude, Michael’s practices can help aspirants make direct contact with the divine source each of us unknowingly carries deep within. |
Contents
Chapter 5 The Slavery of Wrong Personal Consideration | |
Inner Work in Outer Life Conditions | |
The Importance of Cyclic Recurrence in the Universe | |
Meditation with Slow Walking and Breathing Part One | |
Meditation with Slow Walking and Breathing Part Two | |
Meditation with Slow Walking and Breathing Part Three | |
Chapter 30 Meditation with Slow Walking and Breathing Part Four | |
The Interaction of Forces in the Universe and Life | |
The Power of Hidden Influences Emanating from Beings and Things | |
Actions and Their Consequences in the World | |
SvaVaniSravana Yoga Yoga of Listening to the Sound of Ones Voice | |
Efforts and Sincerity | |
The Mysterious Role of Suffering | |
Chapter 10 Nada Yoga Yoga of the Inner Sound Part One | |
Nada Yoga Yoga of the Inner Sound Part Two | |
Chapter 12 Nada Yoga Yoga of the Inner Sound Part Three | |
Nada Yoga Yoga of the Inner Sound Part Four | |
Nada Yoga Yoga of the Inner Sound Part Five | |
The Practice of Concentration While Walking Outside | |
Hidden Tendencies and the Meaning of Renunciation | |
Tapas SelfDenials and Their True Significance | |
Earthly Existence as Indispensable Means for Transformation | |
Yoga of the Void | |
Problems in Meditation and Their Equivalent When Dying | |
Hatha Yoga Part One | |
Hatha Yoga Part Two | |
Hatha Yoga Part Three | |
Time and Eternity | |
Meditation and the AfterDeath State | |
The Trace That Thoughts Words and Deeds Leave | |
The Human Being Thinks Himself into What He | |
Accidental Forces and Their Effect on a Persons Being | |
Seeing and Hearing | |
Exercise with the Sacred Syllable | |
Chapter 39 Sadhana and Enlightenment Part One | |
Sadhana and Enlightenment Part Two | |
Sadhana and Enlightenment Part Three | |
The Further Understanding of Right Effort | |
The Price of Enlightenment | |
Mother and Child | |
Man and Woman | |
Food and the Human Being | |
The Spectator and the Spectacle | |
Conclusion and Summary with Some Final Advice | |
Afterword | |
Footnotes | |
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The Law of Attention: Nada Yoga and the Way of Inner Vigilance Edward Salim Michael No preview available - 2010 |
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