according to the rules of the yogic positions or not crossed, will stabilise the mind; the mind concentrated in this way helps achieve becoming more perfect on the earthly plain, where the common person, as well as the beginner in mysticism, always lives. The concentration into the feet and legs is considered to be a mystical development progressing in a bottom-up manner. An aphorism holds true about it that, if it is carried out constantly, it strengthens and softens the inner beingness and thus leads the practising one to the borderline between our sensory world on one side and the abstracted, the so-called astral, world, on the other side. It will be possible to cross this borderline in the moment, when the concentration into this place develops into a withdrawal of that, which a person in total is, into a single psycho-physiological point. This is exactly that “point of uncertainty” in the psychological sphere. The awareness of oneself will then cause this point to be crossed with the entire normal inner “armoury” and this is the beginning of an explorative path through the transcendental sphere. It is not possible to achieve this result when the concentration is not directed into the lowest part of the body, into the feet and legs, which symbolise the immovable solid earth, because, such a concentration will determine, for a person, a path through other psychological processes; most often through the sphere of abstract phenomena. Although this appears to be mystical, in fact it is the delusory mysticism – straying through the forests of the innumerable and insignificant phenomena of the inner life or of the imagination. Therefore, it is good for everyone not to get enticed by an idea of a path of inner development, which they mistakenly consider to be an intellectual development. A human being needs, above all, an inner consolidation; as, he or she already is unconsolidated. Only due to this reason they wander, tormented by an uncontrolled mind which can never sense the correct goal of the mystical education. It is only able to set more and more new targets, which always prove to be false and flawed. Let us, thus, not be mistaken by the simplicity of the instruction to concentrate on feet and legs. On the “earth of life”, at the lowest part of the being, in the flesh of legs, there is a gate to the transcendence, which can only be crossed by elimination of wandering of mind, which the feet and legs, as a symbol of motionlessness, attenuate very effectively. However, this gate, which is certainly everywhere – in every sphere and layer of the being – cannot be identified in any sphere which is not, or which is not made, equally immovable to the gate of earth which is symbolised by feet and legs. And what about an opinion that the concentration into feet and legs gives an impression that the inner liveliness is attenuated up to a seeming inner dullness? – There is nothing like that. The concentration into feet and legs is lively, due to the fact that it must be accompanied by vigilance and observation. Precisely by means of observation one penetrates the barrier of the solid motionlessness of the material world into the realm of life which determines the destinies of a person, because it is an inner life which is commonly unknown. By means of a mere reflexive perception, it is not possible to penetrate all the way to its bottom and, by that, nor to the origins of all destinies of the individuals. The mystic is supposed to avoid these very destinies by means of 72 Květoslav Minařík
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