Venerable Gunaratna first you have to clear out the various irritants that

are in the way, pull them right out by the root so that
MEDITATION
THE GREAT TEACHER
Meditation is called The Great Teacher.
they won’t grow back. Then you fertilize. You pump
energy and discipline into the mental soil. Then you
sow your seed and you harvest your crops of faith,
morality, mindfulness, and wisdom.

Meditation is the cleansing crucible-fire that

works slowly through understanding. The purpose of meditation is personal
transformation.
The greater your understanding, the more flexible
The ‘ you ’ that goes in one side of the meditation
and tolerant you can be. The greater your
experience is not the same ‘ you ’ that comes out
understanding, the more compassionate you can
the other side. It changes your character by a
be ! You become like a perfect parent or an ideal
process of sensitization, by making you deeply aware
teacher.
of your own thoughts, words, and deeds.
You are ready to forgive and forget. You feel
Your arrogance evaporates and your antagonism
love toward others because you understand them.
dries up. Your mind becomes still and calm. And
And you understand others because you have
your life smooths out. Thus, meditation properly
understood yourself. You have looked deeply inside
performed prepares you to meet the ups and downs
and seen self-illusion and your own human failings.
of existence. It reduces your tension, your fear, and
You have seen your own humanity and learned to
your worry. Restlessness recedes, and passion
forgive and to love. When you have learned
moderates. Things begin to fall into place and your
compassion for yourself, compassion for others is
life becomes a glide, instead of a struggle. All of this
automatic.
happens through understanding.

An accomplished meditator has achieved a Meditation sharpens your concentration and

profound understanding of life, and he inevitably
relates to the world with a deep and uncritical love.
Meditation is a lot like cultivating a new land.
To make a field out of a forest, first you have to
clear the trees and pull out the stumps. Then you till
the soil and you fertilize it. Then you sow the seed
and you harvest your crops. To cultivate your mind,
your thinking power. Then, piece by piece, your own
sub-conscious motives and mechanics become clear
to you. Your intuition sharpens. The precision of your
thought increases and gradually you come to a direct
knowledge of things as they really are, without
prejudice and without illusion.
source : “ Breath Sweeps Mind ” by Jean Smith
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Venerable Gunaratna
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Guiding Principles for The Masters of
Pyramid Spiritual Societies Movement

 Meditate in the right way .. i.e., Anapanasati .. and teach

everyone this same way of Anapanasati.
 Read right spiritual books .. e.g. by Osho, Lobsang
Rampa, Castaneda, Jane Roberts, Annie Besant, Linda
Goodman, Deepak Chopra, Sylvia Browne etc., etc.
 Exchange meditational experiences with everyone.
 Spend .. much time .. every day .. in silence ; worldly gossip
is absolutely forbidden.
 Utilize full-moon nights for intensive meditation.
 Utilize pyramid energy for meditation, as much as possible.
 Give-up all medicines ! Only meditational energy heals !
 No meat .. no fish .. no eggs ! Be a vegetarian ! Eat according
to need, not according to greed ! Eat only when you are
hungry !
 Spend much time in pure nature e.g., forests, meadows,
rivers and mountains etc.
 No ‘ spiritual ’ clothing ! No ‘ sacred ’ body-marks ! No change
to any ‘ spiritual ’ name !
 Impart meditation training to children, right from their child-
hood.
 Learn to live as Masters and never as disciples.
 Reject money exchanges in meditation-training programs.
 No worship of idols ! No worship of Living Masters !
 Overcome personal problems using own meditational
strength.
 Enjoy normal sexual lives ! No sanyasa !
 Establish pyramid meditation centres in all villages,
towns and cities.
 Publish meditational experiences and personal spiritual
transformation.

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