Course XIX - Teaching 11: Seated (Mystical) Posture

It is hard to give instructions about the mystical seated posture. Generally, this posture starts with a mental posture, but not necessarily so. The mystical seated Posture, in contrast to previous postures, is not assumed through a conscious effort of the individual will, but it is a consequence of deep introspection, which make you forget the presence of your body and leads to full physical insensibility. The soul is self-absorbed, and the body looks like a void cover.
Sometimes the body is seemingly dead, and hardly breathes. Other times, the breath becomes majestically deep, as if it wished to compass the whole universe. This depends upon the way you consider the potential spirit or the active spirit.
This is the typical posture of ecstasy that may have a different form according to each individual being but its ordinary particularity is that by means of it you obtain the wonderful feeling of getting you free of physical limitations.