Meditation is an exact science based on real and tangible energies that are natural to the human being.
Meditation is a psychological technology.
It is a scientific method to harness and access the most powerful areas of the human psyche.
Meditation is a set of tools that provide entry to states of
consciousness that anyone, anywhere, can enter, if they know the steps.
The steps cannot be altered or skipped. They cannot be improved upon.
They cannot be avoided.
Meditation is the means to awaken the consciousness in order to
perceive the objective truth, without the interference of the mind.
The arrogance of modern humanity reveals itself in the presumption that
we in this "advanced age" can improve upon the meditation techniques of
our ancestors. We believe that we can invent machines or pills that
will render obsolete the knowledge that created the tremendous
civilizations of the past. This is a fallacy, and only leads the
foolish into deeper suffering. We must recognize that nature never
makes leaps: everything must grow and develop according to certain
laws. You cannot force a tree to grow faster. We try, and it shows our
arrogance and our foolishness. We try to improve nature, and the result
is a disaster. The same applies to meditation. There are rules and
there are laws; if we understand the rules, we can move directly to our
goal. If we ignore the rules, we will get nowhere and we will instead
become disillusioned or confused.
Many nowadays are using chemical or mechanical tools to attempt to
force states of consciousness. They may enter altered states of
consciousness; but this is not meditation.
Meditation is the science of activating the dormant consciousness that
resides in the psyche of every human being. To activate this
consciousness is to open one's inner perception, to see what cannot be
seen with the physical sight. The method to arrive at this experience
is the same no matter what meditation tradition one studies: to develop
inner perception, you must first control your perception of here and
now.
The world is nothing but an illusory mental form that inevitably will be dissolved at the end of the Great Cosmic Day.
Myself, your body, my friends, your things, my family, etc., are (in their depth) what the Hindustani call Maya (illusion): vain mental forms that sooner or later must be reduced to cosmic dust.
My affections, my most beloved beings that surround me, etc., are simply forms of the cosmic mind. They do not have real existence.
Intellectual dualism such as pleasure and pain, praise and slander, triumph and defeat, wealth and misery, constitute the painful mechanism of the mind.
True happiness cannot exist within each one of us while we are slaves to the mind.
To ride the donkey (the mind) in order to enter into the heavenly Jerusalem on Palm Sunday is urgent. Disgracefully, nowadays, the donkey rides us, the miserable mortals of the mud of the earth.
No one can know the Truth while being a slave to the mind. That which is Reality is not a matter of suppositions but of direct experience.
Jesus, the great Kabir, said, “Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” [John 8:32] However, I tell you that Truth is not a matter of affirmation or negation, of belief or doubt. The Truth must be directly experienced while in the absence of the “I,” beyond the mind.
Whosoever liberates the self from the intellect can experience, can vividly verify, can feel an element that radically transforms.
When we liberate ourselves from the mind, then this mind is converted into a ductile, elastic, and useful vehicle with which we express ourselves in this conscious world.
Superior logic invites us to realize that liberating, emancipating ourselves from the mind, releasing ourselves from all mechanicity, is equivalent in fact to the awakening of the consciousness, to the termination of automatism.
That which is beyond the mind is Brahma, the uncreated eternal space, that which has no name, the Reality.
But let us study the facts: who is the one that wants to release himself, to liberate himself from the mortifying mind?
It is easy to answer this question by saying that the consciousness, the Buddhist interior principle, that part of the soul that we have within us, is what can and must be liberated.
Indeed, by itself, the purpose of the mind is only the bitter-ness of our existence.
Authentic, legitimate, real happiness is only possible when we emancipate ourselves from the intellect.
However, we must recognize that an inconvenience exists, as well as a capital obstacle and impediment in order to acquire that longed for liberation of the Essence. I am referring to the tremendous struggle of antitheses.
The Essence, the consciousness, even when of a Buddhic nature, disgracefully lives bottled up within the exaggerated intellectual dualism of the opposites: yes and no, good and evil, high and low, mine and yours, like and dislike, pleasure and pain, etc.
By all means, it is illuminating to deeply comprehend that when this tempest in the ocean of the mind ceases and the struggle between the opposites finishes, the Essence can escape and submerge itself within that which is the Reality.
What is very difficult, laborious, arduous, and strenuous is the achievement of absolute mental silence in all and each one of the forty-nine subconscious departments of the mind.
To reach, to obtain quietude and silence in the mere superficial intellectual level, or in some of the subconscious departments of the mind, is not enough, because the Essence continues to be bottled up within submerged infraconscious and unconscious dualism.
A blank mind is something extremely superficial, hollow, and intellectual. We need serene reflection if we truly want to achieve the quietude and absolute silence of the mind.
The Chinese word “Mo” signifies silence or serenity, and the word “Chao” signifies to reflect or to observe.
Consequently, Mo Chao can be translated as “serene reflection” or “serene observation.”
However, it is important to comprehend that in pure Gnosticism, the terms serenity and reflection have much more profound meanings and therefore should be comprehended with special connotations.
The sense of serenity transcends that which is normally understood as calmness or tranquility. It implies a superlative state which is beyond reasoning, desires, contradictions, and words. It signifies a situation that is beyond mundane noise.
The sense of reflection in itself is beyond what is always understood as contemplation of a problem or idea. Here this word does not imply mental activity or contemplative thought, but rather a type of objective consciousness, clear and reflective, always illuminated within its own experience.
Therefore, serenity signifies the serenity of no thought, and reflection signifies intense and clear consciousness.
Serene reflection is the clear consciousness within the tranquility of no thought.
When perfect serenity reigns, true, profound illumination is achieved. - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Magic of the Runes
Teachings 
The Tower of Babel
