kennethb
15-12-2009, 05:03 AM
Asana: Still body, intended to still the mind. Prolonged practice, preferably according to a regular schedule, eventually results in perfect apprehension of the present moment free of the distraction of running thoughts.
The ability to slow, even stop, one's language-based thinking might later result in the ability to speed up this aspect of consciousness.
Controlled rhythmic breething focuses concentration on breath rather than language, seeing an object diverts concentration to an image, like a triangle. Mantra stills mind thru forcing thinking upon single phrase/phrases/ect.
2) Emotional control. Focus on a single emotion, "imagine" the emotion, until it is genuinely felt. Can you create love, anger, sorrow, apathy, ect., and study ways in which the information is colored by these emotions, or lack thereof?
It is good to learn the difference between emotional release and emotional repression. When you feel an emotion of sorrow, do not push it aside because you do not want to deal with it. Let it hit you, and learn to feel it slipping away. The same with other negative emotions, such as pride and humiliation.
3) Vision Quest. Meditate on being creative, on experiencing unusual sights and sounds, on traveling to strange places and constructing castles in the sand.
Finding Silence
Unattainable silence is attained when it is not attained, because when it is not, it is, and surrounds all things expanding beyond all barriers.
Releasing Baggage
An acknowledgement you will not hold onto the pain you suffered at the hands of others.
Sit in your favorite asana, breathe slowly and deeply, & bring to consciousness every instance anyone wronged you. Concentrate on releasing all blame, & focus on attracting a sychronicity of macrocosmic repair into the lives of the wronged individuals.
That their actions were the product of a malfunctioning macrocosmic mind, & that this problem should be fixed by methods not motivated by vengeance.
Bring to mind everything you have ever done wrong. Release all self-blame. Focus on a sensation of relaxation, peace.
Meditations on Love
Make a list of every image, place, family member, sentiment, and so on, that triggers a feeling of love. Hold all these symbols in the mind's eye long enough to swim in the feeling of love generated,
Spend half an hour to an hour every day on this meditation. Learn gradually to separate that feeling of love from its need for inspiration.
Meditate on your mother, and how deeply you love her. Meditate on your father, and how deeply you love him. Meditate on your sisters, brothers, best friends, ... Meditate on the one (man/woman) you love above all others.
Now phase out the objects of your love gradually, without phasing out the love itself.
Concentrate on feeling love in expanse, filling and emanating from your body.
Meditate on a single object you have a loving attachment toward, and without phasing out the attachment, let that love expand to embrace every aspect of your experience.
Concentrate on loving a piece of shit. When feeling the deepest, most profound sense of love, replace in the mind's eye whatever triggered the sensation of deep love with what normally triggers deepest disgust and loathing, and feel only simple, radiant, unconditional love for this piece of shit.
Indiscriminate love, indiscriminate happiness, transcends suffering, except in special cases, such as torture.
Karma Yoga
The discipline of unconditional kindness.
A good way of building a karma - a causality - likely to trigger the simple love discussed.
The ability to slow, even stop, one's language-based thinking might later result in the ability to speed up this aspect of consciousness.
Controlled rhythmic breething focuses concentration on breath rather than language, seeing an object diverts concentration to an image, like a triangle. Mantra stills mind thru forcing thinking upon single phrase/phrases/ect.
2) Emotional control. Focus on a single emotion, "imagine" the emotion, until it is genuinely felt. Can you create love, anger, sorrow, apathy, ect., and study ways in which the information is colored by these emotions, or lack thereof?
It is good to learn the difference between emotional release and emotional repression. When you feel an emotion of sorrow, do not push it aside because you do not want to deal with it. Let it hit you, and learn to feel it slipping away. The same with other negative emotions, such as pride and humiliation.
3) Vision Quest. Meditate on being creative, on experiencing unusual sights and sounds, on traveling to strange places and constructing castles in the sand.
Finding Silence
Unattainable silence is attained when it is not attained, because when it is not, it is, and surrounds all things expanding beyond all barriers.
Releasing Baggage
An acknowledgement you will not hold onto the pain you suffered at the hands of others.
Sit in your favorite asana, breathe slowly and deeply, & bring to consciousness every instance anyone wronged you. Concentrate on releasing all blame, & focus on attracting a sychronicity of macrocosmic repair into the lives of the wronged individuals.
That their actions were the product of a malfunctioning macrocosmic mind, & that this problem should be fixed by methods not motivated by vengeance.
Bring to mind everything you have ever done wrong. Release all self-blame. Focus on a sensation of relaxation, peace.
Meditations on Love
Make a list of every image, place, family member, sentiment, and so on, that triggers a feeling of love. Hold all these symbols in the mind's eye long enough to swim in the feeling of love generated,
Spend half an hour to an hour every day on this meditation. Learn gradually to separate that feeling of love from its need for inspiration.
Meditate on your mother, and how deeply you love her. Meditate on your father, and how deeply you love him. Meditate on your sisters, brothers, best friends, ... Meditate on the one (man/woman) you love above all others.
Now phase out the objects of your love gradually, without phasing out the love itself.
Concentrate on feeling love in expanse, filling and emanating from your body.
Meditate on a single object you have a loving attachment toward, and without phasing out the attachment, let that love expand to embrace every aspect of your experience.
Concentrate on loving a piece of shit. When feeling the deepest, most profound sense of love, replace in the mind's eye whatever triggered the sensation of deep love with what normally triggers deepest disgust and loathing, and feel only simple, radiant, unconditional love for this piece of shit.
Indiscriminate love, indiscriminate happiness, transcends suffering, except in special cases, such as torture.
Karma Yoga
The discipline of unconditional kindness.
A good way of building a karma - a causality - likely to trigger the simple love discussed.