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Index
Contents
List of Figures
1. Foreword
2. Author's Preface
3. Success in Life
3.1 The Unlimited Opportunity
3.2 Success and Concentration
3.3 The Higher Achievements
4. The Magic Box
4.1 The Mind's First Power
4.2 Discovery of the Will
4.3 The Roads of Thought
4.4 The Four Roads of Thought
4.5 The Practice of Recall
4.5.1 Exercise 1
4.5.2 Exercise 2
4.5.3 Exercise 3
5. Aids to Concentration
5.1 Attention without Tension
5.2 Natural Images
5.2.1 Confidence
6. Chains Of Thought
6.1 The Walking Mind
6.2 The World of the Mind
6.3 The Track of the Fish
6.4 The Power of the Mood
6.5 Polarization of Thought
6.5.1 Exercise 4
7. Concentration in Daily Life
7.1 Outward and Inward Success
7.2 The Folly of Wishing
7.2.1 Calm Judgement
7.3 Economy of Force
7.4 True Work is Play
7.5 The Four Great Enemies
8. Control Of The Body And Senses
8.1 How to Sit
8.2 The Five Bodily Exercises
8.3 Why Physical Exercises?
8.4 Control of Sensation
9. The Removal Of Intruding Thoughts
9.1 Trouble from Oneself
9.2 One-Pointed Purpose
9.3 Telepathic Intruders
9.4 The Effect of Surroundings
10. Gymnastics Of Concentration
10.1 Direct and Indirect Thinking
10.2 Exercises in Sequence
10.3 Exercises in Grasp
10.4 Exercises in Self-Expansion
10.5 Exercises in Mental Command
10.6 Concentration and Study
11. What Meditation Is
11.1 Concentration and Meditation
11.2 Meditation and Experience
11.3 Meditation and Human Evolution
12. Methods Of Meditation
12.1 Preliminary Practices
12.2 Meditation on Objects
12.3 Practical Exercises
12.4 Meditation on Virtues
12.5 Meditation on the Laws
12.6 Devotional Meditation
12.7 Meditation on Sentences
12.8 Meditation for Writing and Speaking
12.9 Intellectual Meditation
13. Meditation With Mantras
13.1 The Nature of Mantras
13.2 Mantra to Shri Krishna
13.3 Meditation on Shri Krishna
13.4 The Meaning of Om
14. Obstacles To Meditation
14.1 The Three Steps
14.2 Give Up Wishing
14.3 The Need of a Teacher
14.4 Meditate within Yourself
15. Contemplation
15.1 The Top of Your Thought
15.2 Inspiration
15.3 Intellectual Contemplation
15.4 An Explanation
15.5 Devotional Contemplation
15.6 Contemplation and Worship
15.7 Contemplation of the Self
16. Conclusion
Index
Terrence Brannon 2005-09-09