About the book: 2022 / This essay is a brief summary of the key points of genuine spiritual practice, which are presented in detail in the book "Dharma - The Way everything appears. Real experience and awareness of a spiritual practitioner" (© V. Sychevsky, 2022, © AEGITAS Publishing House, 2022). Unfortunately, these days it is very often believed that “entering the astral plane” is spiritual practice. This is a very dangerous misconception. In short, the Lower Astral World is the images of our worldly desires. Therefore, simply “entering the astral plane” outside the context of correct spiritual practice is only a terrifying vision of Hell, the Animal World and the World of Hungry Spirits in the Lower Astral World and, accordingly, a serious blow to the psyche. But, if you read the original Buddhist or yogic sutras, you You will not find in them descriptions of “entering the astral plane,” “contact with astral entities,” “connecting to energy flows,” and further immersion in total darkness. Because genuine spiritual practice, based on the True Dharma, which was given to the world by the Great Teachers of the past, is completely opposite to the nonsense and lies that are broadcast by city crazy people. They consider themselves masters of meditation, which they practice under the influence of drugs, or conduct only technical practice, or engage in religious activities to satisfy their egoism and profit, ignoring the Practices of Good, Merit, Law and Tranquility. In meditation, only those data that we accumulated. Therefore, it is very important what exactly we experience after we sit down to meditate and stop ourselves. Further, when data manifests itself, we completely stop its action due to concentration and Contemplation. But what will happen if you do not change the initial data from the very beginning and do not master Calm and Contemplation? For example, why has meditation become so fashionable, but the world is getting worse? The fact is that if you do not change the initial data with the help of preliminary practices, then they will remain at the level of the lower worlds, full of worldly desires and, accordingly, suffering. And if the internal data is of a low level, and there is also no ability to stop the action of these data coming out, then no matter how much you meditate, no one will get better from it. However, ordinary people, trying to “keep up with the trend”, sit and think: “I am meditating.” But there is no point in this sitting by the seat of your pants. There will be meaning only when we persistently change the data of our Five Accumulations, controlling the actions of the body, speech and thoughts on the basis of the True Dharma recorded in memory.