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Dozing off
My S.O. winked at me maliciously after my meditation session last night. "Sitting indeed. You were snoring in there! A fine meditator you are!" - "Was not" - "Too!" and so on :)
Anyway, I usually notice when I start to doze off, and yes, sometimes only after the fact... and I duly note the event, trying to catch as many sensations of it as I can. It still is a tricky object for meditation :)
So, what are your recipes for dealing with drowsiness?
Apart from visualizing brightness and taking deep, invigorating breaths, and getting up for a walk?
Cheers,
Florian
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Aug 6 2008, 2:38 PM EDT by
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Fundamental Non-discrimination
Hi all,
I've been lurking on this forum for a while now. I thought I would see what you guys thought about the method of no method found in Chan (Zen), Dzogchen, MahaMudra and Taoism. Just sitting in Fundamental Non-discrimination. Just relaxed, still awareness of what is. Do you guys feel, assuming one is capable of actually achieving it, one can practice this alone and skip structured shamatha and vipassna practice? Do you guys think "just sitting" can take one all the way to enlightenment - the realisation of one's fundamental nature as it is here and now?
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Jul 12 2008, 6:07 AM EDT by
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Instability of Jhanas
Here's a question that's been plaguing me in my meditation practice: what can I do to increase the stability of each new meditative state?
For whatever reason I can get centred and stay in the first Jhana for a good ten minutes. At that point, fully half the time, the state becomes unstable and I lose it.
I've been trying to figure out what I'm doing differently (when it does or doesn't happen), but I can't see any difference.
Any thoughts on why we lose it? Or (even better!) how not to?
Tips and advice always welcome. After all, perfect practice makes perfect.
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Feb 25 2008, 4:30 AM EST by
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