No worries, glad it was of use.
I had a look through your other threads and you're practice is solid, the insights you're describing are on the money and I would have little doubt in saying that you appear to have stream entry. It's interesting how you've changed your opinion on the dogmatic stuff and how you've seen for yourself that this is totally possible; look at the first three fetters. Now you see 'em, now you don't! Ha!
Yeah my periphery on the left side was gone for about 30 minutes after the earth quake. I did sit in a windoseat and the sun was shining on my left side. also the middle of the visual field was blurred. very strange. and, at the same time it felt like cycling through dukkha nanas. or I was just scared I was going blind. I dont think it was anything practice related. but, I could be wrong.
Right, gotcha. I wondered if you were talking about a total loss of sight or this sort of phenomena, I've also noticed very similar visual disturbances before although I suspect that the sun shining in your eyes probably contributed somewhat. The visual focus sounds like Dark Night, the entire field shifts out towards the edges and the center becomes incredibly difficult to see.
Yeah I experience a lot of equanimity I dwell in the witness/awareness itself often with astounding equanimity. at times it does feel a bit centerless. I try to look at the center and it becomes no center, or non locational/ nothing.
Use your time in Review to your advantage, as Eran said the mind is incredibly powerful right now, you could feasibly make a push for 2nd path but it's possible to learn a lot of stuff really quickly while in Review, like getting into jhana at will and calling up fruitions. It's up to you, it sounds like you already know where you're going with this so it's just a matter of getting it done.
Don't worry about looking
at some imagined center 'cause it doesn't exist, you've seen through the illusion of there being a seperate, permanent self there so now it's a process of elimination. There's still something implying that there's a "you" there to experience this, pay attention to the sensations implying things like time and space, look at subtle aspects of your experience.
I don't do noting practice. just wordlessly looking at all phenomena in terms of 3 characteristics also it is "while thus concentrated" none of this crap leaving jhana to do insight. I would call my practice insight jhana. anyway that is semantics on my part, i got it. so just keep looking and it does its own thing? Does turning the heat up or down practice wise speed things up or does it just do its own thing on its own time. yeah I like the word "unravel" kinda like unbinding.
Sounds like a straight-up sutta approach to me, which is wonderful, I wrongly assumed you were doing Mahasi-style noting, but either way the principle is the same. Seeing the 3C's is what does the damage.
It's up to you how you want to practice really, there's benefit in both approaches but if it's progress through the Paths then you're as well to just power through it. That said, 2nd path happened for me after giving up on maniacally practicing constantly, I literally stopped practicing and about two days later Path occurred. That's just my experience and you'll figure out what works best for you.
I don't have a solid understanding of nanas, just solid practice
You'll do just fine.
Peace,
T