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when you went to sleep. Tha’s why some Buddhist monks never eat before noon or after 4 P.M.

Essentially, if you control your mouth — what you put into it and what comes out of it — you’ve controlled much of your mind already.

Some people hope to reach higher states of consciousness from yoga and meditation. It’s possible, but it requires much practice.

The old masters defined concentration as the ability to keep the mind on one point for twelve seconds without a break. Twelve concentrations — or two and half minutes — equal one meditation. Twelve meditations take a half hour. If you can concentrate without any break, if the flow of concentration is uninterrupted like oil pouring from a spout, then you’ve achieved the last state of yoga, samadhi, cosmic consciousness. Some yogis can enter samadhi as soon as they close their eyes; beginners take several minutes just to enter the state of meditation.