Let's do a self-exploration meditation on the skill in the Yoga of Will.
Allow the waker to sit comfortably,
Such that the waker's body arising completely disappears,
Leaving behind you,
The witness,
Alone.
Observe that the witnessing field is quiet and silent.
It is full of alive awareness.
Is there the recognition of the stillness of your own nature?
Is there the recognition of the nothingness and nobodiness of your nature?
Is there the recognition that the piece of shunyata is the quality of your own nature?
Is there the recognition that whatever is perceived on the screen of shunyata is because of your own projection?
You perceive whatever you project.
Is this your own direct experience yet?
Observe all that which is arising and dissolving into the screen of shunyata or nothingness.
Has the acceptance developed that every thought,
Feeling,
Sensation or perception that I perceive on this backdrop of shunyata is my own projection?
Projection is inside-out.
Inside-out means first there is a subtle thought in the form of a flashing image in the mind.
When this flashing image is fed with the energy of attention and multiplied into a desire,
It projects at the gross objectified level.
When a subtle thought is starved of the energy of attention and desire,
It dissolves and disappears without any gross manifestation.
Is there clarity in your own direct experience that whatever I perceive is what I have projected?
When the projection is inside-out,
It is obvious that the perception of the projected is also inside-out.
First it is known at the subtle thought level that flashes like an image and then it is known at the gross objectified level.
Is this your direct experience?
I perceive what I project and I project moment to moment by reacting to what I have perceived.
If you have recognized in your direct experience the power of projection or bhikshepa shakti,
You would notice a pleasantness arise because of understanding and knowing this wisdom pointer.
Observe the pleasantness.
It is simply a pleasant arising that has appeared in the now.
In the past,
A craving was projected.
The craving was to understand by direct experience projection and its manifestation.
That craving has been fulfilled today.
That fulfillment has triggered the pleasantness feeling wave.
Are you able to recognize this power of the will,
Bhikshepa shakti?
On the other hand,
If you cannot understand in your direct experience projection and manifestation wisdom points,
Then an unpleasantness feeling will be haunting the background of shunyata.
This unpleasantness wave is also the projection of the same craving to have the direct experience of projection and manifestation.
There must be a fear which was projected in the past.
It must have flashed an image in the mind and that image must have been fed with negative energy.
An example would be,
I will never see this.
Am I capable of seeing this?
Is this knowledge even real?
Doubt,
Fear,
Anxiety,
All these are simply negative energies.
That subtle flash was fed with the negative energies.
Hence,
It manifests at the gross level as a lack of comprehension followed by the feeling of unpleasantness.
Are you able to recognize this power of the will,
Bhikshepa shakti?
You perceive what you project and you project by your reaction to whatever you perceive.
Are you able to recognize the power of projection or the power of will?
Beware,
Simply recognizing the power of projection does not mean that you have the skill in the yoga of will.
Let's dive deeper into the skill of the yoga of will.
And what is the yoga of will?
Yoga of will is to be able to skillfully utilize the power of projection or the power of the will to shape your own spiritual path.
Only the wise and mature spiritualist can pave his path.
He recognizes that he projects everything.
He acknowledges that the people,
Objects and events in his personal world are all simply his own reflections.
He acknowledges that every reflection has been born of his own projection.
And he recognizes that every projection is bound to deliver only suffering.
That which takes him away from his backdrop of shunyata must be sorrow and suffering.
Whether it is the wave of pleasantness or the wave of unpleasantness,
Both are suffering.
The mature spiritualist recognizes that it is impossible to project only the pleasant and withdraw from projecting the unpleasant.
Because both are ruled by old conditioning.
If the old conditioning is to react,
It would react to both pleasant as well as the unpleasant.
There is no choice there.
One cannot pick and choose.
Recognizing this aspect of dukkha or sorrow,
The wise one renounces it all.
Are you wise yet?
Are you mature yet?
Have you developed the skill in the yoga of will?
Are you able to see that all is suffering,
Dukkha,
Whether pleasant or unpleasant?
Are you able to withdraw from feeding the subtle image in the mind with the energy of attention,
Knowing that it will only manifest as dukkha?
The yoga of will is for the mature seeker who has shed all desires,
All desires but one.
Only one desire remains,
To quit projecting.
This is the yoga of will.
Do you clearly see that all desires only project suffering and withdrawing from all projections takes you back to your backdrop of shunyata,
The background of true peace?
The only prerequisite is earnestness towards your own spiritual growth.
When you are dead earnest,
You bend everything in your direction and your direction is only of shunyata,
Nothingness.
When you develop the skill in the yoga of will,
You will quit projecting.
Quit projecting.
Quit projecting.
