on talking in your head all the time. And the third eye is the gate
that leads out of it. So that each time you go into your eye you
make a first step out of the mind, and therefore everything calms
down.
Repeat this practice (9.1) over and over again. Choose a few objects
around you and spend some time looking at each of them. Each
time, there is the object, there is you, and there is the awareness
of the vibration/tingling/pressure between the eyebrows. Keep
your eyes open, blink as little as possible. Keep on breathing with
the throat friction. Observe your own awareness and see how it
differs from when there is no focus in the eye.
9.2 Inner alchemy
The centredness and quietness that arise from being in the eye
illustrate the nature of inner alchemy. The eye is the structure,
centredness is one of its functions. Activate the structure and the
function will be implemented. Instead of trying to fight mentally
against your mind to achieve inner calmness, you build up a new
structure: the third eye. And then you just have to switch on the
structure for the function, stillness, to be activated.
This is one of the great secrets of inner alchemy: do not try to
solve a problem on the level of the problem. For instance don't
waste your time fighting the mind with the mind. Fashion a new
organ. Once built up, the eye radiates calmness – that is its very
nature. So the task is to build the third eye, just as the ancients
built the cathedrals. It is a work that requires perseverance or,
according to one of the mottos of the Clairvision School:
‘supernatural persistence’. And then one day you realize that you
just have to be in your eye to make your mind silent. Nothing to
fight, nothing to try: mastery is complete. You can see the
thoughts coming towards your mind as little forms and you can
choose whether you wish to let them in or not.
Let us take another example: meditation. You may have reached a
very high state of meditation once or a few times in your life,
for instance when withdrawing from your daily activities and
undergoing a meditation retreat for a few days or weeks. But then
going back to work and resuming your usual life, the high state of
consciousness gradually fades and you get caught back into your
daily routine of thoughts.
The answer given by inner alchemy is: don't fight to retain the
experience. You can't maintain it because you are lacking the