Breathing techniques are designed to bring the body into a state of deep relaxation. Specific patterns that involve holding the breath for a period of time allow your body to replenish its oxygen. From the lungs outward, techniques like 4-7-8 can give your organs and tissues a much-needed oxygen boost. In particular, a breathing pattern where the inhale is the shortest, and the exhale is the longest, stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system. This leads to our feeling of being relaxed, in a state of well being, or even safe. Relaxation practices also help bring the body back into balance a ..read more

All of the nature that surrounds us is the result of many combinations of earth, water, air and fire. We are in contact with that natural world through the senses. Therefore, the impressions that come to us inevitably bring with them an impurity. We do not see things as they are; it is a substance that is a mixture of many things. This explains the nature of the ego within each one of us, that is to say, the impurity. Nevertheless, in the depths of each one of us, there is something that always remains pure, immaculate, that is found in the lower part of the vertebral column, in the Muladhara ..read more

“The experience of the Truth through meditation proves to be prodigious. When we have experienced the Truth, we feel the strength to persevere in the work on ourselves. Brilliant authors have spoken about the work on oneself, about the “I,” about the “myself.” It is obvious they have done well in having spoken in this way, but they have forgotten something— the experience of the Truth. As long as we have not experienced what’s real, we do not feel encouraged; we do not feel we have enough forces to be able to work on ourselves, on the “I myself.” When we have truly passed though such a mystica ..read more

Well, we will begin our talk for tonight. First of all, my respected brethren, it’s necessary to know how to live. This is something we must understand. When we speak with someone, this person recounts the different events of his life, he speaks to us, we could say, about events, of what happened at certain times in his history, as if life were just a chain of events. People do not realize that, in addition to the circumstances of life, states of consciousness also exist. The capacity to love is based specifically in the way one knows how to combine conscious states with the circumstances of e ..read more

Sacred mantras have the power to awaken the Kundalini. The Angel Aroch, angel of command, taught us the most powerful mantric song that exists in the entire universe for the awakening of the Kundalini. The angel sang this moving and touching song, and we were filled with ec- stasy. The angel then invited us to follow his example, and we sang. That mantric song is written like this: Kandil Bandil Rrrrrrrr. That mantric song is sung in this way: Kan, in a higher intonation. Dil, in a low intonation. Ban, a higher intonation. Dil, a low intonation. The letter R should be vocalized as if imitating ..read more

Love is the fire that burns, cancels, and eliminates. In fact, love is needed in order to eliminate the ego. We cannot just invoke the Divine Mother and feel her, but rather we must love her during the practice of alchemy and outside of the alchemy. In any case, love is death’s twin brother. True death is understood from the point of view of love. I am not speaking about emotional love, nor am I speaking about sexual love, I am speaking about what the Master calls conscious love. To love is a total surrender to the Being, recognizing the misery that we are and the grandeur of the Being. This i ..read more

I think it’s quite clear that we must depart from the consciousness, to depart from the Being, and to educate ourselves to feel the Being. And the best way to feel the Being is to love him, not as a person, not as an entity, but rather as the air that we breath, as the light that reaches me, as the blood, as the flesh, for everything that I have around me, for everything that penetrates me, for what is happening to me, for what has happened to me, for what will happen to me, because that is the contact of divinity with us. Divinity is in all complex things and in all simple things. Why then do ..read more

We Indians know about silence. We aren’t afraid of it. In fact, to us it is more powerful than words. Our elders were schooled in the ways of silence, and they passed that along to us. Watch, listen, and then act, they told us. This is the way to live. Watch the animals to see how they care for their young. Watch the elders to see how they behave. Watch the white man to see what he wants. Always watch first, with a still heart and mind, then you will learn. When you have watched enough, then you can act. With you it’s the opposite. You learn by talking. You reward the kids who talk the mo ..read more