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Number nineteen: You can also concentrate by “imagining the spirit simultaneously within and around you until the entire Universe becomes spiritualized.” Wow, that’s difficult or not? Can do, huh? Can do. Try. Sometimes when you meditate, you cannot have your mind settled down so quickly, then just fantasize for a while. Imagine that the Master is around you. Imagine the Supreme Master within you or all over the Universe, and then enter that spiritualized personality of the inner Master. Then you’ll also feel comfortable. At least your mind has something to think about; it has something to think all the time. So make him think what you want, instead of letting him think of all kinds of worries and anxieties, and all kinds of useless things that we can never do anything about. We let him think of the Master. Imagine the grand spirit of the Master is within us, without us, surrounding us, and all over space and time, until we enter that spirit, then we are in samadhi anyhow. So, that’s how we use the mind’s ability to defeat the mind itself. […]
Don’t make the meditation hall become a sleeping quarter. And don’t make every place become a storeroom. You know, every place has its function. […] If emergency, any kind of emergency, then we can use anywhere as… we have to. But if not, try to reserve a place for something, OK? Otherwise, everywhere is a bathroom, everywhere is a toilet, everywhere is a bedroom, or what? Then what becomes of this place? What do you think?
