M E D I TAT I O N E S S E N T I A L S 1 0 :

Bliss

Trinity / Trikaya

The Tree of Life

Abstract / Emptiness
Trinity

Divine Soul /
Divine Consciousness

The Tree of Life

Spirit / Atman
Willpower / Human Soul

Emotion / Astral

Thought

Vitality / Ethereal / Chi

Physicality
Subconsciousness
Unconsciousness
Infraconsciousness

Positive
Characterized by selessness, altruism, compassion,
wisdom, non-attachment, diligence, zeal, sacrice, love
Supraconscious: seless experiences related to the
trikaya and abstract absolute space

Heavens

Conscious: seless, clear apprehension of facts

Negative
Characterized by I, anger, lust, pride / shame, envy, greed,
gluttony, laziness, etc.
Subconscious: repeated patterns

Physicality

Unconscious: rooted in desires

Infraconscious: brutal animal impulses

Hells

Action and Consequence

1.

Law of cause and eect

2.

Eects are greater than the cause

3.

You cannot receive the consequence

without committing its corresponding
action

4.

Once an action is performed, the

consequence cannot be erased

5.

A superior law always overcomes an

inferior one

3. Wisdom

1. Sila: Ethics

2. Ecstasy

2. Samadhi: Ecstasy
3. Prajna: Profound Wisdom

1. Ethics

Concentration + Imagination Meditation

Concentration + Imagination Meditation

Calm Abiding + Insight Ecstasy
Shamatha + Vipashyana Samadhi

Serenity
Distinguishing features:
1.

vivid intensity, intense mental clarity

2.

stability, one-pointedness

Insight
Distinguishing features:
1.

visualization / imagination

2.

analysis / discrimination

Divine Soul /
Divine Consciousness

Spirit / Atman

Willpower / Human Soul

Emotion /
Astral

Thought

Vitality / Ethereal / Chi

Physicality

Exercises
1. Every day, as part of your self-observation from moment
to moment, become aware of your use of imagination.
2. Every day, practice meditative retrospection. Recall
what you perceived externally and internally from the
entire day.
3. Write the facts of your day in your spiritual diary.