Allowing Vast, Open Awareness to Do Vipassana
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2019
- Michael Taft leads a guided meditation at the San Francisco Dharma Collective, demonstrating how to contact vast, spacious awareness. Then using that awareness to do vipassana.
Meditation lasts one hour, ending at about 1:01:00
Then dharma talk and Q&A.
I came back to this meditation in a more challenging phase. This time there was resistance to completely letting go of the body. There were panic reactions and strong urges to move. Interesting. It really felt as if I would die if I didn’t move, and I understand what that stands for. I was able to postpone movement, but eventually some reflex or reflex-mimicking aspect took charge. It might be interesting to keep going, to investigate these reactions further and see the end of them.
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This was a really interesting meditation. At one point when the open awareness phase started, it somehow brought up a memory of my childhood. Somehow all along I knew I was not the body. And I had unlearned it.
Oh my God! Is THAT infinite awareness? That was my default way of experiencing the world with my eyes closed until I - very recently - learned to visualize and imagine embodied and inhabited space. I never realized that this is it, because this is easy! I thought it was supposed to be much more complicated. I had it all along! Why do people have to make things so damn complicated?! I have tried to explain this to so many meditating people, and most of them were sure that I just lacked clarity, but it was unclouded infinite awareness.
I had to unlearn this in order to understand what people were talking about!
Classically, one of the main reasons the teachers give for people not being able to contact the Natural State is that it is, and I quote, "too simple."
Yeah, that easiness is not accessible all the time. The part of ”me” that finds it easy is definitely not always accessible. That says a lot about impermamence and no self, and about suffering for that matter.
Michael, this was amazing. Thank you for this. This was the best led meditation I've ever done. I've done your retreat and I've been doing these weekly meditations. Today was the first time I've experienced the non-dual state.
Totally agree - this was just awesome. My first time getting into vast spacious awareness beyond glimpses. Thanks Michael!
Getting there again. Still in reobservation, but getting there. Maybe it is an equanimity subnana to reobservation, I don’t know. The reobservation equanimity subnana version of it, if that’s what it is, is actually very interesting. It has density instead of spaciousness, but the density isn’t entirely convincing. It reminds me of a huge bubble gum, as it stretches out sometimes but still has boundaries somewhere in the background. There’s a weird tension betwen openness and tightness, as it encompasses both extremes. There is a more direct sensing, where the hands are aware of themselves and the belly is aware of itself, but it doesn’t have the crisp chrystal clarity of fourth jhana.
Pathways have opened up to increased sensory clarity in the belly. That was much needed.
Om Sabbe Satta Bhavantu Sukhi Tata ! May all beings be happy ! Mangalam ! In the Dhammapada the Blessed Lord Buddha said, " Be vigilant. Protect your mind.Free yourself of the difficulty of the elephant. Sunk in the quagmire. " Thank you for this video on Right Effort, Right Mindfulness and Right Meditation. Om Swasti Subham ! Priyam ! Swaha Om !!! Pranam !
Wicked meditation Michael. Will need to revisit this one.
I found I struggled to bring the same level of sensory clarity I otherwise have in Goenka Body scanning when meditating on breath sensation in the belly while dropping into awareness. The inclination of the mind was to dive in and really bring a more investigative quality of anicca, but that felt like I was going in the wrong direction of these guided instructions. Are those two separate ways of approaching vipassana? Or should I just keep trying to allow awareness to do vipassana and the same level of sensory clarity will come with more practice?
Thanks again :)