Preksha Dhyana Contemplation and Auto Suggestion

Author(s): Mahapragna Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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the basic principle as before. Contemplate and experience the ultimate separateness between yourself and the cushion (or chair) (1 to 2 minutes).
3 to 9. Continue the above process of contemplation, step by step, substituting the following for 'cushion' in step No. 2 above:
3. Clothes worn by you
4. Your body
5. Your somatic and psychosomatic diseases 6. Your mental problems 7. Your urges and impulses, emotions and passion. 8. Your negative attitudes and bad habits (addiction etc.)
9. Your sutblemost microbody (karma sarira) which is the origin of all emotions etc.
Maintaining the above sequence, contemplate, reflect on and experience the ultimate separateness of your conscious (real) self and each of the above associates. (I to 2 minutes for each step).
Step Nos, 10 to 18. Now reverse the above sequence and repeat each step (beginning from body up to the premises) 1 to 2 minutes for each step.
19. Nest recite the following slogans three times:
* Body is transitory * Sickness is transitory (i.e. will be cured) * Mental problems are transitory (will vanish) * Emotions and passions are transitory (will be subdued)
Similarly other exercises such as contemplation of solitariness can be performed.
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