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Recieved: 1999/05/06 03:54
Subject: [K-list] RE: Empty head (re: Jan)
From: jb
On 1999/05/06 03:54, jb posted thus to the K-list:
> From: Satu Sihvo [mailto:satu.sihvoATnospamfimnet.fi]
[...]
> Yeah. I see meditation as going into trance with the goal of
> getting better
> connected / getting more in presence etc... with Something. To
> my mind we
> live in some sort of trance most of the time. Perhaps it is the
> different
> inductions to deepen the everyday trance (or lighten it :)) that cause
> confusion. Some people use words (like reciting prayers) as an
> induction.
> One can observe thoughts or dance or have sex or use some breathing
> techniques or or or. And then comes the empty head (or it does not)...
> Not being "enlightened" I dare to go on :). The experience filling the
> empty head might be shaped more by the goal than by the induction
> method.
> Yeah, empty heads from cool to hot? Your opinion?
>
> Satu
With an (almost) empty head for nearly thirty years, it's impossible to
think it could be otherwise. But before that there was a little practice of
walking meditation. Repeating a mantra, consisting of 6... 12 syllables,
mentally pronouncing one syllable per step, the entire mantra taking one
'breathing in' (also one 'breathing out'), with variations regarding
breath-retention, was most useful to silence the mind. It could be observed
that the mantra started a 'life of its own', being transformed into a kind
of loop. The exercise could be called 'yogic power walking'; it has grown
into a healthy habit but the mantras are left out since a long time :)
Jan
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