Pricey Integral Meditators,
This mid-week article explores a easy means of dropping into deep meditation states extra shortly than you’ll utilizing most typical meditation methodologies.
For those who get pleasure from it, then it is among the meditation strategies we will be utilizing a the Integral Meditation Two Day Retreat on October twenty eighth & 29th. You might be invited to affix!
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Within the spirit of depth,
Toby
The physique is in you – How to enter deep meditation shortly
The deepest degree of meditation is what is called Non-Twin meditation. It’s the state of meditation the place, basically the subject-object divide inside consciousness collapses into ‘One Style’ or the straightforward, important unity of being.
One strategy to obtain that is what you would possibly name ‘progressive witnessing’, the place you understand that you’re not any of the objects in your consciousness, slightly you’re the witness of them. You do that till you understand the Important I, the I-I, the pure consciousness that’s the witness. It will go one thing like this:
I expertise my physique, however I’m not my physique
I expertise my emotions and feelings, however I’m not my emotions and feelings
I expertise my ideas, however I understand I’m the watched of the ideas, slightly than the ideas themselves.
I’m the formless consciousness that witnesses the thoughts, physique and feelings.
This then provides you the important realization of your Self-as-Pure-Consciousness. For those who then let go of the Witness-Self, and let Consciousness (the witness), merge with the objects of consciousness (on this case the thoughts, emotions, and physique), then you’re left with ‘simply this’, the expertise of every second as itself, which is Non-Duality, or One Style. Because the Zen poem goes:
“We sit collectively, the mountain & me, till solely the mountain stays”
So then, usually this takes years and years of meditation to get to. What I’m going to clarify now’s a meditation you are able to do to begin getting a sense for the above, utilizing a perceptual ‘flipping’ method. It goes like this:
Sit comfortably, discover the way it naturally feels as in case you are sitting ‘inside’ your physique.
Then acknowledge the Witness-Self, observing the physique.
Then suppose to your self:
“I’m not in my physique, my physique is in me.”
Develop your witnessing consciousness to encompass the physique, in order that your You (you as Witness Consciousness) surrounds and encloses the physique. Stick with this sense some time.
Then do the identical factor in a progressively bigger and bigger method on this order:
“I’m not sitting on this room; the room is sitting in me.” (Because the formless witness-consciousness)
“I’m not sitting on this constructing (home/condo and so forth….); this constructing is sitting inside me.”
Let your consciousness transfer out to the horizon enclosing the panorama round you:
“I’m not sitting inside the panorama; the panorama is sitting inside me.”
Develop your consciousness to incorporate the sky and stars above, and the Earth beneath you:
“I’m not sitting upon the Earth below the sky & stars, they’re sitting inside me”
You possibly can play with this system to get a way of the novel means by which it begins to change your notion of self, noticing the way it provides you an expanded sense of self-as consciousness, inside which the entire world sits!
Upon getting a way of this, you possibly can then observe dropping the Witness, and dropping into the expertise of the union of observer and noticed right into a non-dual state:
Observe the physique, then drop the observer till “Solely the physique stays.”
Observe the room, then drop the observer till “Solely the room stays.”
Observe the home, then drop the observer till “Solely the home stays.”
Observe the panorama, then drop the observer till “Solely the panorama stays.”
Observe the earth, sky and stars, then drop the observer till “Solely the earth, sky and stars stay.”
The above are some easy pointing-out directions to begin enjoying with in meditation, they’re designed that will help you drop right into a deeper witnessing, after which a non-dual state shortly and quickly. Extra shortly, maybe way more shortly than you’ll be capable of do with a extra typical meditation methodology.
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