I have edited it a little in order to make it clearer and easier to read. For the most part, however, it is a simple copy and paste of what I recorded 7 years ago.
My friend was using the alias name In Silence

I post it here so that you too might benefit from it in some way.

With love,

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Started on Sat Feb 06 23:44:14 1999
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In Silence I was thinking of asking you about the meditation and yoga that can be beneficial for me at this particular time…

Well… if you are sincere enough then all meditation is beneficial…. as with yoga too…

In Silence Understood.

Though the thing to remember is that ultimately this thing we so freely call “meditation” is actually a state of being — our most natural state of being.
It is not something that you just sit down and “DO” for so much time a day or whatever…
The “doing” — using one of the many thousands of techniques out there — is about letting go to the point that you might just — if you have truly fortunate — stumble acrossyour own non-existence and slip away into a state of Meditation or Yoga (Union)…

So what would you like from me… some info on techniques… something else??

In Silence I am just so amazed of what you told me.. I really have nothing to say!
But a few techniques would be good to know.

“Amazed”… gosh… what I shared just spilt out onto the keyboard from the top of my mind somewhere… nice that you find it so “amazing”…
So the first technique… this is an old Tantric meditation technique… although I imagine it’s been taught through various spiritual paths.

First sit and be still…
Start to observe you breathing… without changing it for now
Simply follow the breathe into your body, down to your solar plexus or that general region…
Observe it there and then it will turn around and leave again…
This is something to observe and be simply be aware of…
It is very subtle…
At first (and maybe for some time) you will actually only be observing your BREATHING action, so to speak — the actual physiology / movement of the breathing process
But the breath itself is something quite different…
Something so subtle…
So sweet to see and discover…
So subtle — remember that…
The grosser activity or physiology of breathing is not the breath itself… 

Do you follow…

So do this for some time…
Be determined to sit each day… for some time at least…
The exact length of time is something that should come naturally…
Don’t force yourself… yet do not be too complacent about it…
The mind has so much stuff going on…
So many habits…
That you may find you sit for just 1 minute and then already this mind of yours will start to try and convince you that “this is enough”…
“This is all that feels ‘Natural’ and said do not do it for more than what feel natural”

So this is just the habit of the mind…
The human ego-mind is so mad and crazy… don’t listen to it during this time…

The naturality in it all will come from some where deeper within you…
Some where in the vicinity of the heart… or maybe the belly also
This is where you feel how long to sit and when to sit…
The mind will try to ignore everything that you feel here…
So ignore it

Because you might be so conditioned to listening to the mind,
And not listening to your feelings in the heart and solar plexus,
You might initially, for some days or weeks, just set a determined intent on when and for how long you will sit each day.
You will use your mental determination to do this.
But later… not that much later… you will no longer have to use the mind to play this game.
You will just go with what feels right.
Unless of course you come up against a wall of emotion or inner resistance
Which is just the ego dancing around,
Then you might have to return to using mental determination for a while.
One the wall is dissolved,
You can again get the mind out of it,
And just go with what feels right.
Be aware that generally more and more sitting will “feel” right.
So if you observe that what “feels right” is to sit hardly any time at all,
Then again you might be getting fooled by the ego.

In Silence So you practice awareness. Is this the point with this?

You are not practising anything…
Well, at first it will seem that way — that you are practicing something…
It might help to view it in that way.
Yet there is a point where you are just awareness and you will be the awareness of the breath doing this one very simple thing…
Just coming into you abdomen… just that…
Even forget about the turning of the breath to go out — for now — just coming in and maybe going out…

Then after some time this shall be something that you are aware of through different times of the day…
Then maybe a lot of the day…
If you can be this aware of this all day then this is something that you might start to be aware of in your sleep too…
This is something else to discuss some other time… so, do you follow…?

In Silence Yes! it was very interesting to hear! I am so anxious to start with this as I believe I have longed for it a very long time… 

Certainly… this is part of your homecoming…
You have longed for this for all of eternity…
Something that has always been there calling you toward it…

In Silence Do you want to hear a very interesting thing I read yesterday?
Certainly….

In SilenceIt was about Kundalini…

A guy named Goel was a disciple of Sai Baba and at first he didn’t know that sai baba were communicating with him…wanting him to start being aware…
So, this guy , Goel, told about his experiences with the Kundalini-energy (which I understand is the awareness of the whole universe…well never mind..I’m not a pro on this LOL)
Well, he told in the book that the Kundalini (or awareness of God ) is fighting against the sensesand the ego… It is breaking asunder the nerves that have been built even since childhood.

So the nerves are your ego… That was very interesting and logical I thought… What do you know or thing about this?

So… the nerves are the sum total of all the subtle and grosshabit patterns and responses — well actually reactions — to the world around you… so yes… in a sense much of the personality is sort of just the biochemistry and cellular makeup of this nerve tissue… and Awareness is something that will start to alter the nervous composition of you mind/body…

In Silence Yes, and I’ve been taught that the nerves are building up when you are a child and therefore habits are created hard to break…

They started some time just after you were conceived in the womb…
You see this is something that makes the human a unique creature on this planet… it has the option to go beyond the nerve reaction to the world and to pull in a higher consciousness or Awareness… this is something quite unique…

In Silence But in order to do this must you not first get rid of your old habitual patterns?

There is really nothing to get rid of… just this belief that these habits and personal stuff and issues are Real… they have no substance… just energy and that energy is renewed every moment… by what… by your own state of consciousness or awareness…
Okay… Although it might initially feel to your ego-mind-self that you are getting rid of something.
Really it is just misidentification you are “Getting rid of”
Dissolving or release really.

In Silence Yes ok I see, but to become aware of what the ego really is and that it is nothing!

Meditation is about seeing things for how they really are… and the greatest or funniest thing you will see is that there was never anything to achieve or do or fix or make healthy or get rid of… such a joke… so frustrating for those that seem to not know…

In Silence Yes it is a pain in the ass!

In Silence Hmmm so it is a good idea become aware right now!

All I have ever said is “JUST TO BE AWARE… this is it… this is the journey of GOD, of Creation, of ALL-THAT-IS”… what ever you call it…

In Silence Do you not have emotions anymore…??

In general, no, I do not have emotions…
Rather I am aware of emotions… and how wonderful they are.
I am nothing… aware of everything… sometimes… yet subtlety this is always there…

In Silence But how is that different… being aware of your emotions OR be able to control them??

Nothing to control… control is the ego-mind asserting it self — against itself
Madness… control is suppression…
Just to be aware… That is not a matter of “control”

In Silence But if you then are aware of your emotions… do they really start to even occur to you?

That all depends… they do not occur TO me and the are NOT me… nor do they Effect me… they are just something that I am aware of…
Of course there are times when I get caught up in the emotions.
Only when I identify with them though.
And that’s quite okay…
I go on a ride — quite a hairy and painful one at times — and then the ocean calms down and there I AM…
Peacefully aware again. Well, not really “again” as the awareness is always there,
It just seems like “again” because for a while I lost my sense of it
Because my attention was totally fixated on something else…
On these “emotions” we have talked about.
Enjoy the ride.

In Silence I’ll do this for sure…!

This is enough for now… too much to work on for you…
Just watch the breath and then become aware of it…
Just this small part of the breath…
The breathing action first… certainly… then the actual breath itself….
Then we shall discuss some more…
This practice may not suit you as a means to go all the way there… to “nirvana” or “home”… this may just take you one step…
Then something else…
This is something that you shall know/feel…
Then I tell you some more or you hear some more from some where else… whatever… it will all happen perfectly

In Silence ok that sound great!

Time to go… love to you Brother…

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