Course XXI - Teaching 1: Meditation

The present times have so much collectivist power that the man is forced live thoughts and actions of social customs, in such a way that for him is quite difficult to be against massive ideas of the majority.
Exercises of meditation aim at interrupting the social chain of usual thoughts, leading the man to a new activity: an activity determined by his will, ideal or Superior.
The practical meditation exercise consists then in putting between parentheses certain hours of the day; these parentheses will be on the increase as the exercises are progressing.
So, a practical exercise of meditation consists in separating certain hours of the day; this parenthesis will be on the increase as the exercise is progressing. The ideal consists in joining parentheses of one day with parentheses of the other day, that is, by meditating or being in the mood to practice it for 24 hours a day.
In fact, the exercise of meditation discontinues our life and creates another life; it is very difficult to extend it for long time. This interruption in the social chain of actions, although disappears as soon as the exercise ends, leaves a positive remainder, whose effects can be seen several months later.
So, the important thing in the exercise is not the intensity attained on certain occasions but its average precision, regularity and persistence, in order to create, in the social chain of actions, a supernatural chain directed to certain end.
Also the practice of meditation is to live, but with sense and order; thence, the main thing in the exercise is its acquisition of sense and order. If one breaks the specific order of the exercise, its foundation is destroyed.
During fifteen minutes of exercise you live; it is a special life. The most important thing is to be totally immersed in it.