Certainly and obviously there are a lot of foundations for this work. Ethics being a huge one. This ain't happening without ethics.
But more specifically, we need something constant to keep us on the path. As for remembering death, I've been inconsistent with it. "I am going to die", and I contemplate that for a while. But there is nothing consistent about it.
I guess the whole glue that holds the entire work together is mantras, is it not? If one is self observing, they are going to get distracted, then everything is going to be forgotten.
At least with a specific mantra, you remember you have to be saying the words and clinging to that like a piece of driftwood in the stormy sea of your mind.
So at least to me, this is essential. But what else do you find, to you, is really essential?
For me, another thing would be something like Viparita Karani Mudra meditation. It is that important to me. I need to get fuel for my consciousness immediately or I'll be off.
Is there anything else that can be said about this? My mind is constantly hypnotizing me and confusing me, it is very dangerous, but with the little room to move I've considered that transmuting and mantralization are the big ways to cling onto the path. At least when I stick with that, there is more room to move.
But more specifically, we need something constant to keep us on the path. As for remembering death, I've been inconsistent with it. "I am going to die", and I contemplate that for a while. But there is nothing consistent about it.
I guess the whole glue that holds the entire work together is mantras, is it not? If one is self observing, they are going to get distracted, then everything is going to be forgotten.
At least with a specific mantra, you remember you have to be saying the words and clinging to that like a piece of driftwood in the stormy sea of your mind.
So at least to me, this is essential. But what else do you find, to you, is really essential?
For me, another thing would be something like Viparita Karani Mudra meditation. It is that important to me. I need to get fuel for my consciousness immediately or I'll be off.
Is there anything else that can be said about this? My mind is constantly hypnotizing me and confusing me, it is very dangerous, but with the little room to move I've considered that transmuting and mantralization are the big ways to cling onto the path. At least when I stick with that, there is more room to move.