THE MUJADDIDI ORDER
PRELIMINARY PRACTICES
Lesson I
SCHOOL OF SUFI TEACHING
(A branch of The Institute of Search for Truth)
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Lesson I
Lesson I of the Mujaddidi practices is a meditation that the students
have to do on different subtle centres of consciousness (Lata’if).
Heart (Qalb) is the first subtle centre. Its location in our body is two
inches below the left nipple.
Our meditation is different from other meditations. The student has
to simply say an intention and sit quietly for 35-40 minutes.
Before starting the meditation, you have to say the intention. The
intention is :
I turn my attention to my heart and my heart turns its attention to
the Holy Essence.
It is necessary for you to establish a time for meditation and try to
sit regularly and punctually. It is only necessary at this time that 35
to 40 minutes are devoted to the practice.
In our meditation, posture is not important. You can sit in any
position and even change posture while meditating. Lying down,
however, is not appropriate.
When you start meditating, you may feel a rush of thoughts coming
in and out of your mind, but do not bother about them. In our
technique, we do not try to control our thoughts. In other words, we
do not try to concentrate while we are meditating. According to our
technique, meditation means to keep away physically and mentally
from our worldly activities in order to sit for a while sincerely paying
attention to the Holy Essence. Simply, you have to sit, turn your
attention, and wait for the blessings. You do not have to continually
recite anything. After some time, thoughts will subside and you may
enter a state which is called drifting. It may seem to be like sleep,
but you will in fact be lost in meditation. In this state, you are not
aware of yourself.
After some time, you will begin to feel some activity in your heart as
movement,
light,
sensation,
pain,
expansion
or
other
manifestations, and you will also note changes in your behaviour
and your mode of thinking. For all this, you need only sit sincerely
following the instructions and allowing the divine essence to attend
to you.
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