Techniques Using the Breath
- Radiant one, this experience may dawn
between two breaths. After breath comes in (down) and just before turning up
(out) - the beneficence.
- Or, whenever in-breath and out-breath
fuse, at this instant touch the energy-less, energy-filled center.
- As breath turns from down to up, and
again as breath curves from up to down - through both these turns, realize.
- Or, when breath is all out (up) and
stopped of itself, or all in (down) and stopped - in such universal pause,
one's small self vanishes. This is difficult only for the impure.
- Attention between eyebrows, let mind be
before thought. Let form fill with breath essence to the top of the head and
there shower as light.
- When in worldly activity, keep attention
between two breaths, and so practicing, in a few days be born anew.
- With intangible breath in center of
forehead, as this reaches heart at the moment of sleep, have direction over
dreams and over death itself.
- With utmost devotion, center on the two
junctions of breath and know the knower