Third Eye Development
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Aug 02, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
It may be that cleaning the inner psyche, inners of the subtle body will do more for gaining supernatural perception than anything else. The misleading information which is out there about focusing at the third eye, even information which came to us through valid disciple-guru lineages, take much time from sincere aspirants who strive year after year and find themselves pretending that they are making advancement while deep inside they know that they are going nowhere.
Before you can use a window, a window has to be there. Before you can go through a door, some entrance must be there. And if you find that there is no opening, then imagining and visualizing one could ease your frustration for a bit but it won’t actually make a supernatural opening.
How would you feel if I told you to replace bathing with soap and water with bathing by imagining yourself using soap and water?
Would you agree to begin every day with a sitting session while you visualize yourself going through the motions of a soap and water bath?
Imagining that the third eye is opening is not the same as using an opened third eye which opened on its own without your visualizing anything. In this case you are passive, action-less, visualizing-less and the third eye is active, open.
You are in the psyche in total darkness of mental energy. Then in that darkness something happens or nothing at all happens. Some action occurs but it is not your action. You do not take an imaginative action. You do not visualize anything. And yet something happens, that suddenly in the darkness, there is light or there is an opening like a curtain is suddenly pulled and a bay window is available for viewing.
You are the passive observer of what is seen through that window.
This is how the third eye opens.
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But there is a question:
What should I do if I have meditated for many days, weeks or years, and still there is never any light, there is never any opening. Should I not visualize that there is an opening? Should I not imagine one?
Because I am tired of the failure of meditating in the darkness of my mind.
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Learn pranayama which is the soap for cleaning the inside of the subtle body. Once the subtle body is cleaned from the inside, then the third eye will develop, will come into being all by itself, without any visualization on your part.
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These are some responses from a forum on LinkedIn.
Take a careful look at these and see where everyone seems to be doing something different and yet many people pretend that they are in oneness. It is a question of oneness with what?
Why are the experiences and approaches so different, if it is all the same oneness?
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Von’s comment:
My comment is that no one can open the third eye unless the kundalini has been awakened. Then it will open on its own. Meditation is fine on the area of the third eye, but there is more to it than that. You also must awaken the kundalini by concentrating on the charkras. Don't even think about the third eye because it comes as part of the awakening. Once the kundalini is awakened then if you want to do such things as leave your body you can concentrate on the small white light in the area of the third eye. Never ever build up your ego saying I did it on my own because all these benefits will leave you forever and never come back. Always thank God or the force because it is by his grace only that these things happen and he can take them back anytime.
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Sham’s 1st. comment:
As someone who visualized and meditated and taught Kundalini yoga for years, my personal experience is that breath is a beautiful, graceful and natural route to inner clarity. Studies have shown that visualizing is effective only once a skill has already been acquired - visualizing being a pianist takes you nowhere unless you are already a pianist. The mind is so powerful and it knows what you think an open third eye, or being spiritual or being compassionate should look like and so it provides you with that "look". Breathing, noticing breath, noticing that the body does the breathing, noticing that no effort is required, the mind relaxes and cleansing and clarity can take place.
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Martin’s comment:
Practicing daily the Cobra Breath from Babaji Nagaraj helps to safely open the Third Eye which helps to prevent the dramas that often accompany energising the lower chakras too soon. This method brings energy up to the Third Eye.
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Sham’s 2nd comment:
The dramas and traumas of the lower chakras do need to be faced, but gently is best - long deep breathing is a breath for the root chakra and can help us stay grounded as we face the content of other chakras which hold deep within them cultural and familial programming and the resultant shame and guilt. I believe we are seeking the experience of transcendence rather than rejection.
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Mehmet’s comment:
Opened third eye means to be awake as a soul, to have the soul-conscious vision, that is to use the inner powers such as to discriminate, to assess, to accommodate for the situations, circumstances and people. To have yoga or to make meditation is not enough but to be a yogi (connected during daily life) is necessary for this. To be connected to the Supreme always (I mean as much as possible). You may try easy Raja Yoga...
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Rajan’s 1st. Comment:
It is a point of limp-node at the fore-head. But, it is also a point of 6th chakra / in the 7 levels of yoga ! That is the level of mind, awakening the energy "kundalini"—opening the "gnakan--wisdom ,eye"---a door next to inherit the power of intuition to see the future/hidden acts of others/us/ animals etc
Rajan’s 2nd comment:
The question is how far/long a person is doing the breathing-exercise !
Can you regulate/control the average 15 breaths per minute (21,600, per day) to 14/13/12/11/10 per minute? The person can live long 300 years or more/ acquire the 7 TH SENSE ! DO YOU READ THE WRITINGS OG "ROMA RISHI " ?
MORE TO LEARN BEFORE TO PRACTISE !
unlimitedsun 3 years ago
How to not sound pompous? How to not be so judgmental?
Pretty much rhetorical, I can't stand it.
