| | Author: Dan_K
Thanks Daniel that is helpful and relevent to my experience. It raises a further question: I am familiar with seeing formations, seeing that everything whether here or there arises as one field with a visceral luminosity. I have also spent time noticing the faint suggestion of an observer, which in my experience flips like a suffocating fish when attention is paid to it.
Tarin wrote: "stay with the weird, unaesthetic, oozing/grinding/slipping that starts to happen that feels like it shouldnt be happening, like its some kind of regress, unwanted direction, etc, viscerally stay with it. note the sense of dissonance, things going out of sync rather than in," in the thread "Bored with Equanimity..."
In the thread "Formations," Daniel, you wrote
"You write that you can notice the blinking, then notice the sensations that seem to be you, then notice the blinking, then notice the you sensations. Increase awareness of the transition or motion of attention that includes both of them, notice how they are part of the same moving, transient open field of attention, look at how attention or space or manifestation moves around, and begin to notice that they are all part of the same thing, attention/space/manifestation moving, blinking, attending, doing its thing, and stay with it, even if it gets creepy and particularly if it begins to hit close to home or shake the sense of a center point or begins to feel like things are synching up."
In my experience, noticing this "flip" can be aggravating even in equanimity, especially when focusing on the characteristic of suffering. My question could be distilled to: is there a good way to balance attention to open, inclusive in-synch-ness, with attention to the subtle dissonance of the slipping out-of-synch? Should these practices be alternated?
Thanks, Dan |