This was my 2nd attempt at Jhana meditation
without a timer. Sat in a room which was mostly silent with very mild
road noise and a clock tick. In this session, I was able to concentrate on my
breath for up to 60-70% of the time. On closing my eyes the mental plane
started mildly swirling and dancing but I tried to look at the entirety of the
movement from an empty space again and again. I noticed that I needed to relax
further down, this helped get rid of the ‘holding on to an image’ problem. The
perceptions were still dancing about initially, but this time, I stayed more
firm with my observation frame and caught the breath. The breath in the very relaxed
state felt non-physical. It was a pure feeling and I could not locate it in
space. I could not even feel its direction beyond how I chose to visualize it:
as a sphere expanding and contracting, as a piston moving back and forward etc.
I could drop the physical aspect, space and direction of it. It felt like a
‘subtle feeling’. I tried to reach this place again and again during my 15 min
meditation and then concluded.
Radical questioning and exploration into the nature of mind and reality. Quest for the ultimate truth.
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