Cultivating Your Merit Sphere: A Guide to Mindfulness : หน้า 142/200

Reflect on your merit sphere, easily and comfortably. Develop a feeling that you have a bright merit sphere residing at the center of your body. It doesn’t matter whether the sphere may appear clearly to you or not. Don’t try too hard to make the image appear clearly to you. This will stress you out and will inhibit your progress. Your objective is to still your mind at the Seventh Base by reflecting on your merits in a nice and easy way. Whether the sphere will appear clearly to you or not depends on how refined and how still your mind is. The more refined your mind is the more clearly the image will appear; the less refined, the less clear. Reflect on your merit at all times, during all activities. Soon your mind will become more and more refined and the merit sphere will appear more clearly to you until it becomes utterly clear at the center of your body. At which time you will feel like your physical body has disappeared and only the center of your body remains. Your progress has a lot to do with your practice. The more you practice the better you get. Treat this as an important mission in your life. Constantly reflect on your merit and the Seventh Base of the mind. Let your mind get acquainted with the Seventh Base until it becomes second nature.