Single-Point meditation

Dalai Lama recommends focusing the eyes in a single point to mediate. This is one of many techniques he recommends. I am not sure if it is effective method as far as emptying pressures is concerned, or thoughts, since thoughts bring or come with some pressure, a force on particular area of the body.

You may notice this, thought-pressure relations or emotion-pressure relations, during meditation.

I will experiment to see if single point meditation has the same thought-controlling power as that of contracting abdominal muscles, as the author affirms.

Counting the breath while exhaling the entire expiratory reserve volume, I noted, can extinguish all pressures, that is all thoughts.

The object of mediation to me, or at least one of them, is to empty yourself from all thoughts, and by implications all pressures.

If I manage to stop thoughts, then I stop counting the breath and focus on saying Mu inwardly, while stressing the vocal cords silently. This constitutes what the author calls a second stage, following the stage that aims to stop wandering thoughts, by implications empty pressures or egos.


Breathing is also done at this time in the nose rather than in the mouth. I also press the tongue on the roof of the mouth, as the author and others recommend. Doing so makes me more stable and comfortable. It also reminds me of my childhood days, placing a finger between the tongue and the roof of the mouth. Some say doing this, pressing or linking the tongue and the roof of the mouth closes a cycle of energy that promotes human health and longevity. I agree with them based on my own experiences on the matter during my childhood era.