“The subterranean layers of the Earth (or any planet or star) represent the kingdom of minerals (lithosphere). The kingdom of metals is the barysphere that envelops a heart of incredible density and frightful inertia. We must make a clear distinction between the mineral kingdom and the kingdom of metals. Among minerals, the group of metals is a cosmically separated group. A little beyond the kingdom of metals, there exists a certain very rare type of matter that has closer contact with the Absolute (with the Ain Soph Aur). We must comprehend profoundly that the Almighty Holy One abides behind the kingdom of metals. The Ray of Creation begins in the Absolute and ends in the Inferno; but what is beyond the Inferno? It is clear that beyond the Inferno, behind the kingdom of metals, the Absolute is found.” – Samael Aun Weor
See Beyond this Physical World
The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Those who fix their minds on my personal form and are always engaged in worshiping Me with great and transcendental faith are considered by Me to be most perfect. But those who fully worship the unmanifested, that which lies beyond the perception of the senses, the all-pervading, inconceivable, unchanging, fixed and immovable—the impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth—by controlling the various senses and being equally disposed to everyone, such persons, engaged in the welfare of all, at last achieve Me.” – Bhagavad-Gita 12: 3-5
Divine Sight
“Since you cannot see Me with your present eyes; therefore I give you divine eyes. Behold My mystic opulence! Sanjaya said: O King, having spoken thus, the Supreme Lord of all mystic power, the Personality of Godhead, displayed His universal form to Arjuna.”
“Arjuna saw in that universal form unlimited mouths, unlimited eyes, unlimited wonderful visions. The form was decorated with many celestial ornaments and bore many divine upraised weapons. He wore celestial garlands and garments, and many divine scents were smeared over His body. All was wondrous, brilliant, unlimited, all-expanding.” – Bhagavad-Gita 11: 9-11
Sila
Tendency, habit, custom, way of living or acting, shape, usage, virtue or practice. The three terms Sila, Samadi and Prajna are the Three Higher Trainings of Buddhism. Sila is ethics.
There are a lot of ways to interpret Sila. Do not use the word morality here, which is how many people translate it. Morality is completely subjective. What is moral in this country, is immoral in another country. What is moral in this culture, is immoral in another culture. What people in this group over here consider moral is considered immoral by us. So morality and immorality are completely subjective and have nothing to do with the laws of nature.
Ethics on the other hand are objective; they are universal. Violence is harmful. Anger is harmful. This is universal. Selfishness is harmful. This is universal. So this is what we mean by ethics.
Sila is about learning about our tendencies, habits, customs, ways of living, recognizing the ones that cause us to suffer and others to suffer, and starting to change them. That is how we learn to start meditating.
So the first thing is to start watching ourselves, all the time, and be honest with ourselves about what we see in ourselves.
