NADABRAHMA MEDITATION

This is an old Tibetan technique of humming, which creates a healing vibration t

hroughout the body, and a hand movement which centers the energy at the navel.
Nadabrahma meditation lasts for one hour and has three stages. It can be done at
any time of day, alone or with others, but have an empty stomach and remain ina
ctive for at least 15 minutes afterwards.
First stage: 30 minutes
Sit in a relaxed position with eyes closed and lips together humming loudly enou
gh to be heard by others and create a vibration throughout your body. You can vi
sualize a hollow tube or an empty vessel, filled only with the vibrations of the
humming. A point will come when the humming continues by itself and you become
the listener. There is no special breathing and you can alter the pitch or move
your body smoothly and slowly if you feel like it.
Second stage: 15 minutes
The second stage is divided into two 7 1/2 minute sections. For the first half,
move the hands, palms up, in an outward circular motion. Starting at the navel,
both hands move forwards and then divide to make two large circles mirroring eac
h other left and right. The movements should be so slow that at times there will
appear to be no movement at all. Feel that you are giving energy outwards to th
e universe.
After 71/2 minutes turn the hands, palms down, and start moving them in the oppo
site direction. Now the hands will come together towards the navel and divide ou
twards to the sides of the body. Feel that you are taking energy in. As in the f
irst stage, don't inhibit any soft, slow movements of the rest of your body.
Third stage: 15 minutes
Sit or lie absolutely quiet and still.
If you are lost, then good, you enjoyed a rhythm, an inner rhythm, and it was be
autiful and you liked it, but it was like a drug -- it is an acid trip. By chant
ing, by the sound, you created certain drugs in your body.
Chanting creates chemical changes in the body, and those changes are no differen
t than marijuana or LSD. Some day, when research goes deeper into meditation, th
ey are going to find that chanting creates chemical changes -- just as fasting a
lso creates chemical changes.
After the seventh or eighth day of fasting, one feels tremendously jubilant, wei
ghtless, very glad for no reason, delighted -- as if all burden has disappeared.
Your body is creating a certain chemical change.
I am as much against LSD as I am against fasting. And if chanting is used as a d
rug, I am against it. So the point to be remembered is that you have to use the
sound, the chanting, the mantra, not as an intoxicant for your being. Let it be
an intoxicant for the body and the mind but you slip out of it before you become
intoxicated; you stand out and you watch. You see the body swaying and you see
the mind feeling very very peaceful and calm and quiet. Watch from the outside a
nd be alert like a flame.
If this is not done you will have a good sleep but nothing more. Then it is a go
od thing for health but nothing for the ultimate growth.
Good -- pay attention to nadabrahma, mm? And sometimes sitting silently, start c

hanting anything, 'aum', will do, or choose anything, any word, and get in tune
with it. Meaning is not important: it can be meaningless -- it can be meaningful
. 'Aum' has no meaning. Or you can create your own mantra and chant it. But reme
mber to slip out of it.
Let the body get drunk, let the mind get drunk, let them fall into a deep love-a
ffair with each other, and you slip out of it. Don't stay there longer -- otherw
ise you will fall asleep. And if one falls asleep, it is not meditation. Meditat
ion means awareness. So remember it!
Technique
In the night before you go to sleep, do this fifteen-minute meditation. It is a
death meditation. Lie down and relax your body. Just feel like dying and that yo
u cannot move your body because you are dead. Just create the feeling that you a
re disappearing from the body. Do it for ten, fifteen minutes, and you will star
t feeling it within a week. Meditating that way, fall asleep. Don't break it. Le
t the meditation turn into sleep, and if sleep overcomes you, go into it.
In the morning, the moment you feel you are awake -- don't open your eyes -- do
the life meditation. Feel that you are becoming more wholly alive, that life is
coming back and the whole body is full of vitality and energy. Start moving, swa
ying in the bed with eyes closed. Just feel that life is flowing in you. Feel th
at the body has a great flowing energy -- just the opposite of the death meditat
ion. So do the death meditation in the night before falling asleep and the life
meditation just before getting up.
With the life meditation you can take deep breaths. Just feel full of energy...
life entering with breathing. Feel full and very happy, alive. Then after fiftee
n minutes, get up. These two -- the life and death meditation -- are going to he
lp you tremendously.