Clif High - The Aard Corps You DO have what it takes...

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Clif High - The Aard Corps You DO have what it takes...

Hello, humans. Hello, humans. September 9, 619 AM. This is hopefully a brief little discussion on how meditation is a biohack and also tools to use in meditation. Meditation is not simply sitting there and contemplating your navel, right? this is a very much a mischaracterization of what goes on. Meditation is an active technology.
It is a technology specific to the mind and the spirit, but it uses the body to achieve it. And there are biohacks you can use, so to speak, you know, there's tools within the meditative toolkit to cause these things to occur. And the, um, process works. It's demonstrably beneficial. It is not difficult to understand.
It is not even difficult to do. What is difficult is to make yourself do it, right? Okay, so humans are described in the meditative literature as as being that which watches or witnesses the mind. And so this is a very good way to think about it, right?
You're not your mind, you are not your body, you are something else. And we attach the word spirit to it, but in the Eastern tradition, we think of it a different way in the martial arts and from Japan and so on, right? And it's conceived in this fashion. All of universe is filled with life energy,
an aspect of that life energy this is from an ontological viewpoint all of universe is consciousness consciousness extrudes out the materium from itself and creates the encapsulations we call our souls it puts bits of itself its own consciousness within those souls for its own purposes it sets us all loose within the materium
it's sort of like a giant video game in that in that fashion right There are, as with any good video game, there are those little tchotchkes or those little, you know, you get things, right? Rewards and so on.
But you have to always, as in video games, you have to put out the effort in order to get the reward. Here the rewards are truly not able to be adequately described. No matter how many words I put to the benefits of meditation, it will never adequately describe it, nor will it ever describe
describe how those benefits will accrue within you. Meditation takes an act of will. The first time you do the meditation, you reinforce that will. You let yourself know you have the will to do it, and thereafter, once you know, that you that is witnessing mind—not the mind,
but that you that is witnessing mind—will exercise that will as it chooses. And this is how you develop willpower. This is one of the side benefits of meditation. Willpower, mental strength, all different kinds of things. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of words can be applied to the benefits that you
will derive from even just a few minutes of meditation. And then if you should ever do it on a daily basis, oh my God, oh my God. Anyway, so this discussion here is about the tools for meditation. How do you do this shit, right? The idea in meditation is to find what is described as the undiscovered country.
And it's not that you have to, I shouldn't use that word find, because we know where it is. It's easy to locate, but you have to travel there. And that takes an act of will, and that takes the act of will to do the meditation itself.
Because the undiscovered country is delivered to you in that very instant that of trying meditation for the first time and having it work. Meditation is a technology. It is predictable in terms of how it works once you get on the track of it, right?
Once you hit the power button in the PC or push the little button on the phone, the machinery goes ahead and cooperates with you and fires up, assuming it's okay, right? Same thing is true of meditation. Assuming your body is in reasonable shape, meditation will fire you up to a different level. Meditation is the...
act of going into the ever-present now. It's nothing else, okay? It's not contemplating your navel. It's not thinking about God. It's not about any of this other stuff. It is an experience. It is not cogitation. Anybody that tells you that they came up with something in meditation and it's a
complex theory may be quite correct because your mind will work ever so much better But your mind is from meditation, but your mind is not involved in that meditation. And in fact, the goal of meditation is this place called no thought. And that is this undiscovered country.
If you get into the undiscovered country, which is the space between future and past, all right? Future is an illusion. Past is an illusion within our minds. They do not exist in our physical reality. You cannot walk into your future, and you cannot walk and return to your past. You can only exist in this eternal, ever-present now.
Meditation itself is a technology, a process that takes advantage of, capitalizes upon, and ultimately enhances aspects of our biophysiology. that interrelate the body to the mind, right? To the flesh, to spirit. And so meditation itself is a technology and it employs tools and stuff, but in a larger, greater sense, meditation itself is a biohack.
It's a technique, a process whereby you can build a better you. Meditation is a repeatable technology. meditation is a technology that works across humans and that is no matter what kind of a human are if you can do these activities you will reap the benefits it doesn't
matter culture religion any of that crap right and to a certain extent it doesn't matter health but the better your health is the better the experience the more you gain from it maybe if you're really really ill you might gain fantastically from meditation on ever so many different ways. Meditation,
if you do it effectively and continuously and constantly, will result in psychosomatic wellness. You'll make yourself well by the activity of your mind. As I say, meditation is a technology. I've done a lot of different kinds of meditation, and there's only two that have any real value to me. One is Vipassana.
That is a form of active householder meditation, if that's what it's called, is householder meditation. And you do it while you're nominally engaged in your other activities, but you don't let the other activity fail or you don't do a bad job at it just because you're engaged in the Vipassana.
That's really kind of a tricky process, but it makes you into a far superior human. And it is, at its core, a form of Psychological therapy. It's interesting and so on, but that's not the point of the discussion here today. The other type of meditation I do is Zazen. There's all kinds of tradition and shit,
and you can go and look it up, but this is just a discussion about the techniques. Zazen is the stuff you would, in form of meditation, you would see where all the samurai guys go and they sit cross-legged or they do that kneeling pose. The kneeling pose is called Seiza. That's the way I do it.
Okay, there's a reason for that. The Seiza is chosen by the samurai guys because you can get up. You can spring up from that position. Your legs are going to hurt. You're going to have circulation issues and so on, depending on how long you've been sitting in meditation.
But you can spring up from it, which you can't do if you're sitting cross-legged. But you will see that the statues of Buddha and other... enlightened beings meditating frequently they will sit in a cross-legged position there are reasons to do that okay so the meditation is using the technology of your
body to get at the manipulation of the integration of your body mind and spirit in order to make that integration what you would of it okay so you're going to alter your entire relationship with reality and the way in which you express yourself down here in the materium in this reality by doing meditation.
It gives you control over those aspects of your life, universe, and everything that you cannot get in any other way. Meditation is a technology that is not only repeatable, but it has... the ability to take on in your body and improve in your body the very pathways which it seeks to exploit in the meditative process itself.
Meditation has a very specific goal, which is no thought. Any other description of meditation is wrong. You can even find the This description of meditation in the New Testament encoded in descriptions and stuff that Jesus says. It's everywhere. The more close you are to the source of the meditation in terms of the originator, the more
a particular school or technique, the more powerful the message is and the more likely it is that you'll get involved with it. But you can find meditation lying around in a dusty old book, thousands of years old, pick it up now and say, my, that's an interesting thing.
I wonder if that body technique they're describing here would work with me. And it will, it'll be repeatable, and you will gain benefits from it because all of these techniques are continuously being rediscovered. Because they're suppressed for one thing, and it's necessary that we rediscover it, the universe would have nothing else but us rediscovering it.
But every generation needs to go through this on their own. Every individual meditator must go through this on their own. Meditation is a self-initiatory experience. So now to the tools. In Zen, there's various different approaches. A lot of times you would go and get intense kyatsu massage before the meditation if
you're going to do like an extended stint. And I used to do six-hour stints and then overnight, which is approximately nine hours, the way it worked out. And you need that massage in order to get your body ready, right, for that kind of extended work.
But you can do meditation on 15 minutes every day or 10 minutes every day or even five minutes. In fact, when you start off, it'll be very difficult to do it for even one minute. And you'll find that that's a huge milestone for you is when you can do it for one minute solid in the beginning.
Anyway, so... The point of the meditation is that point of no thought. No thought is only in the ever-present now, the eternal now. That is reached by... turning your mind, your attention, your awareness to focus in on aspects of your body that will bring you to the eternal now. One of these is breath.
And so if you just focus on your breath, it brings you to the now because you can't breathe in the future and you can't breathe in the past. Any of these body... mechanisms that will return you to the present, ever present now are effective tools. And there are many of them within the body.
You can go into meditation, meditation, you're going to find yourself fighting your mind. Okay. So the witness fights the, the mind in meditation, attempting to calm the mind and get it the fuck out of the way so that the witness can witness itself and all of reality. In so doing,
the fight of the mind in meditation is the constant distractions that the mind is used to and wants. So it is shocking how little focus... It's understandable, perfectly understandable, but it's shocking how little focus modern humans have now. So the overweight, super flabby, seed oil eating, vax injected normies...
have no focus ability whatsoever because they use these phones and the technology flits them from one thing second to second to second. That's sort of a deal, right? And so there is no concentration. There's no analysis. It's an instant thing in the moment, which is always going to be emotional. If you have to do anything,
if you have to decide or make any decisions or anything like that, even move your body, all of those things are emotional. And the emotions are fleeting. emotions rise to the surface and then fade very, very rapidly. And they are not an analytical tool. So it is in the nature of our current society, that the phones,
the technology, that hard material stuff is part of your enemy. You have, and, but you can train yourself in meditation and you will find that the, your activity within the phone, the addiction to the constant distraction, And all of that will fade away. It'll just naturally drop away. And so how do you do the meditation? Well,
you concentrate on those parts of your body that, as I say, will return you to the ever-present now. So all you have to do is simply be aware of your breathing. Every time you take a breath, just be aware of the beginning of it and then the end of it. You don't alter it.
You don't do special forms of breathing. A lot of these things cause problems with your body anyway. You just want to breathe naturally, but be aware of it. And then you'll find that your mind isn't going to rebel, right? It's going to really get pissy. It's going to go think about something.
It will follow your baser instincts in attempting to distract you from this effort of meditation, which removes the mind, okay? It gets the mind out of the control. It gives the willpower control back to the witness, and the mind does not like that. And so the mind fights you, and it'll use every tool it can,
and it will bring up everything it can, and it will bring up those things that have the largest amount of emotional impact on you at the very beginning and continuously harp on them. So you'll find yourself going back to your baser instincts and all of these weird thoughts showing up when you start the meditation. And it's fine.
Let them show up. You don't care. It's just garbage being thrown up to distract you. And you just let the thought arise. Note that it is there. You just note in your own awareness that the thought is there. You need not have a word with it. You just sort of like, there it is passing.
And it goes into the past. And you remain. You just sit there. The witness remains. The process sounds really goofy. It functions. It works. It's a very ancient technology. As I say, you find it everywhere in all this old literature. It's extremely powerful. If you're in the moment,
you are reacting to what's going on and be able to respond to what's going on right in that moment as opposed to being out in the future and then your mind having to be called back into the present moment because you're going to have a car crash or somebody's
attacking you or you got to do work or something, right? But if you're living in the moment, you're just right there always. Anyway, and so that's the goal. You want to come back to the undiscovered country, the ever-present, eternal now, in which there is all possibility and all action and nothing ever really exists outside of that.
Everything that you try and say exists outside of the ever-present now is basically a delusion. So now here's how you do it with your body. Anything that will bring you back. So the breath, but you can also use other aspects of the body. Frequently when you're doing Zen meditation and you get into it seriously,
like you're 10 or 15 minutes into it, your body is going to seriously complain to you. You will have pain in the leg. You'll have all different kinds of things happen to you. It's an unnatural process for your body in many regards. And you're sort of like doing biohacking. So there are things you can do.
You can take your second finger and touch the tip of your, and hold it with both hands, the second finger touching the tip of the thumb. This creates a particular key circuit that activates particular nerves within the vega system, and it reinforces activity within the tenth cranial nerve. You can check it out.
There's actually literature about the mudra, the hand positions relative to meditation in this Gyan... A couple of people in some medical institution in India did a bunch of brain imaging while guys were doing this. And it makes a big difference to do these kind of things. You can cross your feet behind you.
You can cross them at the ankles. But the samurai and the deep Zen meditators... I discovered that it's really only necessary to cross the big toes. And so I alternate when I do Zen. So one day I'll cross the right big toe over the left big toe when I sit. I sit Seiza, though.
I don't sit cross-legged because of damage to my... I used to, but damage to my knees prevented. So... So that works. It's the same form of a key circuit as doing the finger mudra. And it works. It'll cause a brain change in you. Now, the most fantastic brain change in everything that you have to work up for,
you actually have to learn to do, and you've got to train your body to accept it, okay? It's not easy. So there's feet, hands, and breath. So you work from the bottom up, right? So feet to hands to breath, and then to eyes. Now, the eye... Mudra, so to speak, is more powerful than the rest of them.
The key circuits you must have, so you've got to do the fingers and the foot or the toe crossing in order to get that effective base. And of course, you're always thinking about your breath. You're always bringing your awareness back to your breath. But then you'll do this thing with your eyes.
It's going to hurt like hell for a long time. And then you'll keep doing it, but you won't ever have to think about it once you get into it. It actually causes specific... neural pathways to be activated. That's why you go through a training process and it hurts.
There is discomfort and sometimes a lot of pain in doing so. What we're going to do is I'm going to describe what you see everywhere on these statues of Buddha and the meditating saints. You'll even see this in a There's like, maybe it's a 13th century painting of Christ on the cross, and he's doing this meditative process,
right? And you'll see that St. Francis of Assisi did it and so on. You see it in a lot of these paintings. And unless you know what you're looking at, it's meaningless. But someone somewhere there, when they were doing these paintings, decided to encode that these individuals were magi, that they practiced the magic of meditation.
And what you see is that half-closed eyelid approach, right? And that's sort of a funny little look on the eye underneath because the eye is not in its normal position. And to achieve this is a multi-stage process. And what you do is you get into the meditation, you put your fingers and your toes,
and then you get your concentration on your breath, and then you cross your eyes. You deliberately take your eyes and focus them at a point on the bridge of your nose, maybe about one-third of the way up from the bottom of your nose.
And so my nose is broken, so I have a nice little bump there, so it's easy to focus on. But you focus on that. This causes your eyes to cross, and it can hurt, and it can hurt a lot. And you just keep doing that until you're very comfortable doing it.
And of course in doing so, that's part of an active meditation, forcing through the pain. Because you become aware of the pain, there's nothing else in your body but the pain, you don't react to the pain, the pain is there, you just let it go into your past.
You just let the awareness of having that pain go into your past, and you're no longer concentrating on the pain. You're in the eternal now, watching your mind not react to the pain, but being aware of the mind and the pain at the same time. You can use the pain or any number of...
body artifacts to bring you into the ever-present now the eternal now the most effective way the first way you get there is through the breath it's impossible to breathe in the future it's impossible to breathe in the past so it necessarily concentrates you there but in doing such things as uh
zen meditation you get to the point where you can concentrate on the pain and you can actually examine the pain feel the pain be aware of the pain get into the pain and you're not in the past or the future you're just aware of it right you're just
there at it with that pain there's all different kinds of things that you can do when you're meditating so you'll find maybe that at some point In the process, your mind will slip constantly, right? So you start off in meditating, and mostly your mind is slipping into thought.
And the idea is to grab those few instances between thoughts and hold on to them, feel them, recognize what it feels like, and always seek to get there. Thought being in the future or in the past. There are ways to... When you go into meditation and you get into the process, there are predictable things that will occur,
and these predictable body things are brought up to you ahead of time by the gurus so that you know what's going to happen, right? And it's just that you have a mechanism for dealing with it when it occurs. So sometimes you'll find your awareness gets off of your breath. and it gets into something like your pulse.
Maybe it's the beat of your heart, which is easy to feel through the breathing. You'll feel that as part of the breathing, the awareness on the breathing. Sometimes you'll get stuck in on the heart. Sometimes it will be like the blood flow. You'll actually hear the blood flowing in your ears. It becomes this overwhelming rush.
You can't hear anything else and so on. And these body sensations tend to dominate for some period of time in the meditation. You can control them. They're the last line of the mind's ability to distract you to try and blind the witness or the will. And so it gets really deep with those.
But once you're through those, then you're into the period where you're in the undiscovered country. So that's the veil. The last veil is getting through these body sensations. effects that are put up by your mind to try and distract you from reaching this particular point. And then once you've found the undiscovered country and you feel it,
then all you have to do to get there again is just return to that feeling. It's very unique, very easy to find in your library of feelings. And it will always reliably get you there. So once you get into meditation, maybe the first time you get into the undiscovered country,
maybe you've been meditating for months and just can't achieve it. Your mind is still dominating, but you still persist. And then one day you get a brief glimpse of it. And the next day you're just all thrilled to try it again. And your mind having had, or your, your, The witness,
having had success directing the willpower to get you into the undiscovered country, into the ever-present now, will do so easier. It'll be easier for it. There'll be less energy involved. This is a big barrier to overcome your mind. Your mind has been trained to fight this by way of the constant,
continuous distractions that it has been involved in since the moment it became aware. So this is not an easy thing to do, but it is quite simple to do. It requires willpower, though, but the good news is the instant you start it, you have willpower, and thereafter, once you know that feeling, it can never be lost.
You can always retrieve it again, and willpower used is also willpower magnified. So it's easier to be willful the second time that you've had, you know, after success the first time. And so this is just the way it is. So sometimes you may find that it's necessary that you, or that you can't find your breath.
That's what they'll say is I can't find my breath. And what's happening is that you're, mind is putting up these barriers and you get lost into the blood flow or all different kinds of processes within the body, right? So you can get trapped in like body parts, so to speak, just awareness of them.
This is what leads to... So you can get into these predictable traps within meditation. It won't happen instantly. It'll take a long time before you find any of the traps. because you have to work and work and work to achieve these particular states from which the traps may emerge. So don't worry about them, right?
They're not to be afraid of. It's not like alien AI going to eat your liver. None of that, right? This is something that is a predictable barrier that you'll have to overcome. But at the same time, just finding the barrier is proof of success. Just reaching that point is proof that you've achieved. So you will overcome.
It's not a problem. And there are techniques that you can go out and find that will direct you to ways to overcome them. You know, the ways that others have found in the past. And this is the nature of meditation. Now, once you get into it to where you're doing the
The techniques in terms of a lot of people just do meditation, they just sit, they sit sloppily, they may lie down. And then this is legit, you can do, you know, corpse pose meditation, all different kinds of meditation, you can do walking Zen meditation.
That's really freaky to see a bunch of guys with their hands on the shoulder of the guy ahead of them, all doing walking Zen meditation, and there might be, you know, quite the crowd. Anyway, though, so there's all different forms of meditation. And then once you achieve the state,
then you have a tendency to be in the meditative state at any time your witness shall will it, any time you shall will it. And you also have the spillover effected. being in meditation nearly continuously and you can achieve no thought at will so i
can go to the undiscovered country at will i i can just anytime i choose to do it airplane rides used to be just great for me because i would relax into it meditate and just go there and then at some point i would become aware of the plane landing
and you know hours had passed and it was a done deal And I wasn't there, you know, the transit. Anyway, so this is meditation. These are some of the techniques. You can research it. You'll find all different kinds of techniques. Don't get hung up on those. Recognize that every technique was devised to...
react to or overcome some form of obstacle or barrier in this process. And that the goal is simple. The goal is the eternal now, the undiscovered country, that space between future and past in which you may live and in which you may play with all of the possibilities that exist within key science, within the key of universe.
That's where you manifest stuff, right? The kicker is that once you do the meditation and this kind of stuff and get into the undiscovered country, it's so much fun to go and discover it that you're not really inclined to go out and do a lot of manifesting. You know,
it's just a real distraction and involves you back into the illusions and delusions that are part of the material reality. This is complex stuff, but as I say, you can find, you can research it. You can find lots of other techniques for meditation, but you go from the ground up, so to speak, right?
And so it's feet, hands, breath, and to a certain extent, heart, and then eyes. And so just to finish this, I've been going long enough. You know... that when you're doing cross-eyed meditation, well, first off, when you do the cross-eyed meditation and you get beyond the pain and you're able
to just snap into it the way I am, one of the things you do is you close your eyelids over the crossed eyes. And you can do that, and people don't really know you're meditating. They may think you're just even snoozing or having a little nap or something, but you're quite aware and you're just...
in this meditative state that is brought on by doing that. So you can bypass a lot of the warmup, so to speak, once you've reached that stage of doing cross-eyed meditation. And I'll leave it at that. You know you're in... Okay, so when you go and you do group meditation and this kind of stuff,
you can observe people and so on. And when you see the people doing the cross-eyed meditation and their eyes in that half-closed position, you know you're among the hardcore. Try it, guys. It's good for you.

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