Practice #3
Covetousness is the cause of war and of all the miseries of this world. If we want to do away with the greed of the world, we should profoundly comprehend that this world is within our own selves. We are the world. The greed of all other individuals is within ourselves. Really, all individuals live within our own consciousness. The world’s covetousness is within the individual and only by doing away with the covetousness that we carry within will the covetousness in the world end. Only by comprehending the complex process of covetousness in all the levels of the mind can we arrive at experiencing the Great Reality.
Practice
1. Lie down in the form of a star, opening your legs and arms to the left and the right.
2. Concentrate now on your immediate physical needs.
3. Meditate, reflect on each one of those needs.
4. Lull yourself to sleep trying to discover, on your own, where necessity ends and where covetousness begins.
5. If your practice of concentration and inner meditation is correct, in an internal vision you will discover what your legitimate necessities are and which of these are covetousness.
Remember that only by profoundly comprehending necessity and covetousness will you be able to establish true foundations for the correct process of thinking.
