{"id":27633,"date":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/2003\/04\/01\/techniques-for-mental-concentration\/"},"modified":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","modified_gmt":"2003-04-01T14:24:28","slug":"techniques-for-mental-concentration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/techniques-for-mental-concentration\/","title":{"rendered":"Techniques for Mental Concentration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mental concentration can be described as merely \u201cdo not act\u201d. The Zen adepts say it is \u201cto simply stay\u201d (Zazen). During the practice of&nbsp;concentration, the mind should be like a mirror: it will only reflect the object of&nbsp;concentration like a pure crystal, which takes the colour of the object on which it is placed. We will present here two highly accessible techniques through which one can easily improve his capability&nbsp;for mental concentration.<BR><BR><B>It is strongly recommended not to conduct such concentration techniques upon&nbsp;malicious images; as this would put you in resonance with disharmonious energies which will hinder your spiritual evolution.<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mental concentration can be described as merely \u201cdo not act\u201d. The Zen adepts say it is \u201cto simply stay\u201d (Zazen). During the practice of&nbsp;concentration, the mind should be like a mirror: it will only reflect the object of&nbsp;concentration like a pure crystal, which takes the colour of the object on which it is placed. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[811],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharana-mental-concentration-1734-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}