7.2.7 How do you prepare for practice of the world-healing meditation?

This meditation is best practised either in solitude or in peaceful companionship. Choose any meditation posture with which you are both familiar and comfortable. Daily practice for a minimum of fifteen minutes will be best, but this is not essential – every selfless contribution to the general good is of value.

Unlike your everyday Implicate Technology meditations, the world-healing meditation is not a practice which leads to progressively enhanced states of consciousness. Rather, it works on the basis of cleansing and purifying your own psycho-physiological system, and the environment which that is capable of influencing. You are capable of beginning to practise this meditation successfully once you have attained the first stage of enlightenment, and you make progress in its stages according to your level of spiritual development.

The world-healing meditation is based on a simple technique of increasingly focused visualization, according to your level of consciousness. The purer and clearer the process of visualization, the greater is the benefit to yourself and others. As you progress in your ordinary meditative practices, so you will be able to experience this meditation at its deeper levels.

Approach the world-healing meditation with a humble sense of giving what you are able to, for the benefit of others. Be warned: practising this meditation with a sense of complacency or smugness about your own virtue and selflessness will ensure that you experience karmic activity structured to teach you true humility. Use your meditative skills to ignore any self-centred, self-oriented thoughts which may arise as you meditate.

If you are ill and seeking to purify your psycho-physiological system through this meditation, then it is best to concentrate your efforts largely for your own benefit. Be clear: all illness is caused by a preponderance of negative karma, associated with your individual mind, your body or your environment. These karmic imbalances can occur in any degree and combination, and can affect the unenlightened, the relatively enlightened and the enlightened person.

If you are ill and practising the world-healing meditation to heal yourself, dedicate your efforts to identifying and understanding the karmic causes underlying your illness. If you are practising this meditation for your own and the general good, dedicate your efforts to identifying and understanding the prevalent patterns of karmic activity in your environment. In either case, once you have identified and understood the nature of the karma shaping your conditions, dedicate your efforts to harmoniously resolving, balancing and healing the imbalances in the prevailing conditions.