> > Share this thread about your recent meditation efforts and results.
> > I spent an hour today doing breath meditation* with the mantra
> > "no-thing" while imagining my body as being an empty place where
> > breaths went, and if ideas came to my mind, I applied a kind of
> > X-ray vision onto them where I saw them as being empty.
> > I achieved first jhana fairly quickly and easily, and stayed with it
> > through second jhana before going back to my regular way of thinking.
> >
> > * anapanasati, a form of samadhi
> I've tried to get into meditation, but I can't seem to quiet my thoughts. （ ´,_ゝ`）
> plz teach me ur ways
Not that anonymous, but what helped me was guided meditation. That got
me to learn the process of putting myself into a relaxed "mind silent"
state, and showed me what exactly it was I was trying to achieve. Now I
can recall that state whenever I need to ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
It's basically the act of fully focusing on what's happening around you
RIGHT NOW, without judging it or have any kind of thought about it. As
soon as you notice your mind wandering, thinking about what you just
observed, or "chattering", you actively pull your attention back to
purely receiving what's around you RIGHT NOW
You know when you hear a mysterious noise and you enter a heightened
state of alertness, with your entire self solely observing your
surroundings in order to figure out what it is/where it's coming from?
It's effectively that, only without the adrenaline boost
It's also similar to being an infant/young child, who is simply
enamored with the world around them and not "thinking" about it or
judging it - the world just is, and they just are
Think of your ears as being simple microphones, your eyes as simple
cameras, your fingers as simple sensors - rather than their input being
sent to the brain to be stored, processed, and analyzed, it's just a
constant stream of data. You're solely focused on observing the live
input - not what happened 5 seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc. ago
Reference: 2023/06/26(Mon) 02:45:02