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At any time, a yogi can focus his attention on the abstract whole, the totality of existence outside himself. This is particularly useful in everyday life. And to help you connect to and commune with the abstract whole, to life in general, you can freely use the same “key technical aspects” that you do when you use the void as a doorway to the Other Side, the Dimension of Spirit.
A cool way to “frame” the Plugged-in Presence (or Divine Communion) practice is to turn your bodymind into a divining rod—but instead of “dowsing” for physical water, your aim is to “locate” Holy Water, the living Spirit ceaselessly springing from the underlying Divine Source.
Here is the basic practice (which you can freely experiment with and modify). First, effect what I call the “divining rod mudra,” or “hands/forehead focus.” This “mudra,” or “focus,” is simple. Simply, simultaneously, focus your feeling-attention on your hands and forehead. Once you feel consciously connected with your body, turn your full, whole-bodily attention to the whole, the abstract totality of existence outside yourself. Just as a divining rod seeks to penetrate the surface of the earth to locate water, your mission, as a human divining rod, is to penetrate the “surface” of manifest existence (the universal veil, or cosmic illusion, that Hindus term Maya) to “find” the “hidden,” or underlying, spiritual “Spring.” Attempt to remain directly and immediately present to the whole, and as soon as you notice yourself retracting from the asana (or psycho-physical “posture”) of at-one-ment, attempt to reassume it. When distracting thoughts arise, disrupting your connection, neither accept nor reject them, and they will dissolve of their own accord.
