Meditation and the Initiation Process (Vol.6 of a Treatise on Mind)

This book provides practical background information and teachings on meditation primarily for a Western audience. Through meditation compassionately focused actions and group sharing the Heart centre is awakened and Bodhicitta is manifested. For this to occur the development of wisdom is essential. The associated process concerning the path of Initiation into the Mysteries of being/non-being and the planetary Head centre (Shambhala) shall be provided. The subtleties of the Initiation path will be revealed through an esoteric interpretation of passages from the Bible as the New Testament constitutes a major text on this subject. This philosophy is complimentary to the Buddhist foundation presented in the previous volumes of this series.A Treatise on Mind OutlineVolume 1 The Self or Non-self in BuddhismVolume 2 Considerations of Mind-A Buddhist EnquiryVolume 3 The Buddha-Womb and the Way to LiberationVolume 4 Mandalas: Their Nature and DevelopmentVolume 5 An Esoteric Exposition of the Bardo ThödolVolume 6 Meditation and the Initiation ProcessVolume 7 The Constitution of ShambhalaWhilst the numbers of Buddhists are growing in the world the techniques and discourses of Buddhism have not changed to meet the radically different conditions of the contemporary world. Thus Buddhism needs a true restorative flowering to rival that of the renaissance of debate and innovative thinking of the early post-Nāgārjunian era. In order to achieve this it must synthesise the present wealth of scientific knowledge alongside the best of the Western world's philosophical output - this is the primary task of this seven volume treatise. It is principally a study of the complex interrelationship between mind and phenomena from the gross to the subtle-the physical psychic supersensory and supernal. This entails an explanation of how mind incorporates all phenomena in its modus operandi and how eventually that mind is liberated from it thereby becoming awakened.