Exercise 1. Sit in your room and inspect it closely, noticing all the small things that are in it. Then close your eyes and makes all these things mentally to go through your mind, until after the procession. If you know the alphabet languages, such as Devanagari, Arabic or Russian, make the letters go one after another in front of your mind, until after the entire series. You might say that this is easy, and, indeed, it's easy.
Now sit back and make a mental walk along a familiar road or street to you, pay attention to all details that you recall when you are in my thoughts will slowly pass by them, and then come back the same way until you reach the place of departure. Committed in a manner a new ride every day during the week and every time the fish will want to leave the path you have chosen for this walk, make her walk back and start from scratch. Thus, you'll teach her to follow the target line or on a number of specific images, not elected by itself and you.
Exercise 2. Click on this exercise to another, where you take one more trip, but this time instead of walking along a familiar street or alley, walk through some former experience you have and let it happen again in the form of passing before your eyes the panorama. Imagine, for example, that you get up one morning, had breakfast, went to the station and talked with Mr. Brown in a train that takes you into the city, came to his office, read his morning correspondence, etc., go this way through all the major accidents of everyday items. Try to go through all this again more clearly as possible, and any one part of the memories, even in detail. If a small fish removed, bring it back and make a fresh start. Do this every day during the week.
Exercise 3. Then go to the third stage of the exercises and try to keep your thoughts in a certain direction. Draw an object or sound around him, such as the ticking clock. Ask yourself: What is the cause of this sound? He comes from the swing of the pendulum and the movement of the springs and wheels. But what makes all of this? Try now go way back along the row of images, watching the clock in their travels, imagine how they were put into place as they reached their destination, where they, as their constituent parts have been collected and are made where and by whom as had been obtained the necessary materials, generally all that contributed to their emergence and their present form. Not much, unless your idea of this exercise is not entirely true, but it's very important that your mind went through a long series of successive representations, never losing sight of goal. Each day during the week, watch your mind for a lifetime of anything from the surrounding you will not allow the fish never disposed to other subjects.
Exercise 4. Now walk back to your imagination as you did before, along the familiar road, but when you come to elect a building or to the familiar form, stop and examine them. Try to imagine a planned every detail, without being distracted and not continuing your journey. At first it seems trudnoispolnimym, and if you find that your mind begins to endeavor to escape, try at short intervals to change our position and try to imagine the familiar sight of these new points, and when you feel tired, go back to its original place. You're likely to find to his surprise, that you really do not know anything about the details of those buildings, or those species that are in your presentation were very familiar to you. Consequently, you need to exercise in the mental draw. Look closely at the wall of the room where you sit, notice all the signs on it, all the objects attached to or leaning against it, the shape, size and size of all associated with it. Now close your eyes and try to imagine all at once. You can find his image vague and uncertain. Imagine then turn every small part separately and you will see how they will be distinct. Imagine a human figure. You will find it somewhat vague, but if you look at some separate part of the picture, this part will be distinct, while the rest will seek to disappear if you will see clearly the hand or foot, his head would disappear if the head is distinctly lower part of the body disappear. Whatever image you have not studied this way, some parts of it will elude you, and while you are considering one of them, the rest will fade or even disappear altogether.
This phenomenon has its cause. Your attention like a lamp. If it shines over the small space, it will illuminate the space clearly, but if it spreads over a large field of observation, all subjects will be comparatively dull. We can therefore speak of the tension and stretch, when we view our ability to care. If the attention is allowed to spread over a wide field, its intensity immediately decreased, whereas in the reduced field intensity increases. We therefore need two sets of exercises: one in which attention is limited and so tense, and the other in which an effort is made to keep this increased tension, while attention is slowly spreading itself over a wider field. Even the limited mind can make one any good thing, even an animal can bring a certain virtue to a high degree of perfection, such as in the case of a dog's loyalty, but we need to develop a broad mind, one that would encompass many things at once, and at the same time to see clearly all the whole. Thus, we will acquire over time a powerful control over the large field of diverse interests. But it is better not to start a large increase, while the mind is not able to acquire more small details. It is in this is the reason for the failure of almost everyone, "education" which has passed beyond the limits of his power: he loses the ability to see things clearly with your own eyes and act decisively when unexpected circumstances, although it may be, and has acquired a certain amount of superficial knowledge and grinding, which are so valued by secular society. In his short career school teacher, I saw many boys 'education' which overstepped the limits of their powers, and the terrible oppression of our educational system, brutal, some of these students lost their lives unbearable for life. If only we could grow, while maintaining the clarity of mind and the brilliance of thought, which we had in childhood, how could we be happy! It is true that the university "polishing stones and diamonds are dull," as once one of the great writers.
Then continue your exercises as follows. Take the portrait of the great and good man, whom you truly admire, put it in front of him and look at one of the pencil or brush strokes of the artist in the middle of the face, for example, to a point between the eyes. Close your eyes and draw a bar that is clearly in his mind. Repeat this several times until you can not call him immediately quite clearly. Then take another bar near the first, hold down and its just as clearly in his mind. Then imagine two strokes at once. Compare your imaginary picture with the original with each new stroke, and so moved forward with patience, until you're able to provide quite well, say, one eye or nose. Continue this way, adding the bar for stroke, until all the person has not received so clearly in your mind that you can draw it clearly and easily with all the minutest detail. This is - the work of many hours, because every line must be represented accurately. In one method you may be able to play only one trait and it will take at least a week for capturing the entire portrait. If you are so perfectly reproduced only one portrait, you will see how much benefit your mental strength. Practice this method of mental drawing within two weeks on the same portrait.
Exercise 5. Now you can usefully apply to exercise the expansion of attention. First, take a picture of something beautiful. In India we have a lot of lovely images of different kinds of deities, which are used in different forms of meditation. For example, there is a lovely small painting of Sri Krishna, the Lord of Love, in the form of a boy sitting on a rock and played his flute, while in the background, a herd of cows grazing on the shore of a quiet river, behind which runs a chain of tree-covered mountains, as if protect this gentle scene. Take a picture like this, consider it carefully, close your eyes and play it in your imagination. Then begin to narrow it and notice how the whole scene becomes clearer as to how you reduce its volume. First let out of the clouds and mountains form the background, then the trees and the river, then the cows grazing on its banks, and so on, until, until you have nothing left but the boy's figure. Continue to slowly narrow the field of your inner vision, making the image more and more distinct in proportion as it decreases until it disappears from sight the rock, and while you will not have only the upper body, head and face, and, finally, only one person with his amazing eyes.
Keep a clear image for a moment, and then start to expand it again, trying to save a whole is as distinctive as a person, willows, while you will create a whole picture, stroke by stroke, exert every effort to maintain the same clarity for complex picture of what you have achieved for a fraction of it. When you do this exercise during the week, go to the next.
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