tion is called by the Buddhists ‘the threshold concentration’. 4. When you will, through this sequence of steps, achieve such a high level of vigilance, that its dimming doesn’t occur – not even when you are paying attention only to a single, especially imaginary, i.e. unreal object of concentration, you may change the threshold concentration into the total one. This concentration will help you to transfer the daily consciousness, i.e. the consciousness based on experience into the sphere of inner phenomena, without losing awareness whether you are dreaming or correctly discerning everything that is happening in this sphere. By this you have realised in yourself the state of wisdom. Acknowledgement Published with the permission of Mrs. Zora Šubrtová, the copyright owner. References Soanes, Catherine, and Angus Stevenson, eds. 2004. Concise Oxford English Dictionary 11th Edition [CD]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 3rd Edition. 2008. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Minařík, Květoslav. 1992. Malý mystický slovník naučný [Small Mystical Encyclopaedia]. Prague: Canopus.* * A Small Mystical Encyclopaedia, which was originally meant to be a glossary for his own books about mysticism, grew in the hands of Květoslav Minařík until it became a book of popular science, accessible to every person interested in the spiritual teachings. It explains the basic terms of the spiritual teachings and their relationships to other scientific fields. About the author Květoslav Minařík, a Czech mystic (1908–1974), who, in his youth, learned in the deepest detail and in himself realised, the highest spiritual and mystic ideals of the East, without losing contact with the social and the working life. Later, he has formulated his experience into an original, authentic experience based spiritual teaching, based on the ways of thinking and psychology of a contemporary European. The teaching leads him or her through life, and perfects their being as a whole; it does not only deal with the physical, moral or mental component, it develops all three in harmony. Out of the great spiritual teachings of the world, his teaching is closest to the Mahayana Buddhism. Spirituality Studies 1 (1) Spring 2015 89 (13)
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