The Ten Rules for Meditation

Scientific meditation has ten basic, fundamental rules. Without them, emancipation and liberation from the mortifying shackles of the mind is impossible.

• 1st Rule: Before the arising of any thought, be completely conscious of your psychological mood.
• 2nd Rule: Psychoanalysis: investigate the root and origin of each thought, remembrance, affection, emotion, feeling, resentment, etc. as they emerge from the mind.
• 3rd Rule: Serenely observe your mind; place perfect attention on all mental forms that appear on the screen of the intellect.
• 4th Rule: From moment to moment during the common and current course of daily life, remember and recall the “sensation of contemplation.”
• 5th Rule: The intellect must assume a psychological, receptive, integral, uni‑total, complete, tranquil, and profound state.
• 6th Rule: There must be continuity of purpose, tenacity, firmness, constancy, and insistence in the technique of meditation.
• 7th Rule: It is commendable to attend the meditation rooms of the Gnostic Lumisials anytime we can.
• 8th Rule: During any agitated or revolving activity, it is peremptory, urgent, and necessary to convert ourselves into watchers of our own mind, to stop at least for an instant to observe it.
• 9th Rule: It is indispensable and necessary to always practice with closed eyes, with the goal of avoiding the external sensory perceptions.
• 10th Rule: Absolute relaxation of the entire body, and the wise combination of meditation with drowsiness.