Meditation, part 7

One can also imagine the possibility of stress being placed not on tanden but say on somewhere on the upper part of the body, by pushing the shoulders towards the neck. If this is the case, the mind tends to think faster. Holding attention to one task becomes harder.

This tension causes mental and physical instabilities because it tenses vital organs located in the upper part of the body. This I think is one of the great insights the author discusses in the chapter. The solution is to stress the lower abdomen by bulging it first, to prevent the stress from being displaced to the upper part of the body.

As discussed, the author recommends, and my experience supports his recommendation, us to extend these
postures outside meditation chambers.

I have learned number of lessons form this chapter and these are sort of things that I will be writing about.

Why would anyone pay attention? You pay attention to save yourself, if possible, from danger and to use your time and resources more effectively.

I also noted when I pay attention much of the day by tensing the lower abdomen, during meditation practices and by extending meditation posture outside meditation sessions, my desire for sweet stuff drops, as if attention is sweet.

Long time ago, before I was exposed to this book, I noted, that stillness, not moving at all, while on the bed, allowed me to stop thoughts and thus enter a state of mind where occasional thoughts that pop up or story telling thoughts don't arise, chattering box ceases to function.

What is going on then ? nothing save a sound that is very much like the sound one hears when one is in a cave in the middle of string of mountains away from civilizations and its noise, at night, around 3:00 am.

The sound appears to be uniform, no matter where I am, space wise, being In different lands, or time-wise, now or five years ago, it remains the same.

Sometimes, the intensity changes, and becomes very immediate, as if small particles are pounding a surface.

It occurs to me this is the edge of the universe and it strikes as if this whole thing is lifeless owing to the absence of variation. There is general uniformity prevailing. This is perhaps is what meant by transcendence of duality or absence of differentiation, unity or uniform existence.