Daniel M. Ingram
remember to include core processes in your investigation as they occur, things that really seem to be self, agent, doer, observer, etc., such as looking, effort, the mechanisms that tune awareness, the processes that judge the quality of the meditation, expectation, analysis, comparison, subtle fear, subtle longing, subtle frustration, and the like, and do this in a volumetric way, such that they are seen where they are, how they move and morph and shift.
these are easy to miss as they seem so close to home, and tuning to purely bodily stuff might miss them to some degree
daniel
Thanks
Yeah. Mind inclines to Samadhi/Tranquility, and if there is not an opening mind inclines investigates phenomena. I see in real time a multitude of phenomena pass before awareness like a vibration. the vibration being many many beats and each beat being one mental moment of phenomena. Like in 1/3 or less of a second I will see a streak of this phenomenal vibration that has at least 100. without the powerful investigative qualities of the mind at this level it just looks like a trail of light in the darkness. before you can say nirodha there is 1000's or more rising and vanishing.