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Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night	Dark Night Yogi	8/17/09 3:01 PM
RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night	Dark Night Yogi	8/17/09 4:27 PM
RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night	tarin greco	9/3/09 4:56 AM
RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night	Dark Night Yogi	9/3/09 5:16 AM
RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night	tarin greco	9/3/09 12:56 PM

Dark Night Yogi Posts: 137 Join Date: 8/25/09 Recent Posts	Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night 8/17/09 3:01 PM Forum: Dharma Overground Discussion Forum Hi. I recently got first path on aug 3., and was able to relax for a while. The dharma begun to keep the wheel turning though, and i am in another a & p, with some disillusion version 2. but i want to be able to be productive at work since its a busy week. Question 1: how should i go about this, should i stop meditating? (i do not wish to bounce around back and forth to and from a & p to equanimity repetitively like the 1st time around.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Question 2: Unrelated to the present question also: is the energy and strong difference in experience and control only experienced when first entering new territory for the first time? I.e. How I'm feeling now, and how I felt pre-first path with the A & P, equanimity. I noticed, as I kept falling back and forth, the energy seemed to be more subtle and unnoticeable. (Im not sure if it was just life conditions like what ive been eating or exercise/health that made it less noticeable or if its really that way) Can meditators call on these states in the future to aid them in their everyday lives? I.e. If one wished to stay in Equanimity, then they keep that energetic strong-control equanimity induced state? Or will the states just fall back, become more subtle and unnoticeable. ------------ Thanks very much!!
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Dark Night Yogi Posts: 137 Join Date: 8/25/09 Recent Posts	RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night 8/17/09 4:27 PM as a reply to Dark Night Yogi. hmmm. or is it also possible to aim to fall back to mind and body so that i am also more down to earth
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tarin greco Posts: 655 Join Date: 5/14/09 Recent Posts	RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night 9/3/09 4:56 AM as a reply to Dark Night Yogi. hey mindful1983, how did this issue end up turning out for you?
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Dark Night Yogi Posts: 137 Join Date: 8/25/09 Recent Posts	RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night 9/3/09 5:16 AM as a reply to Dark Night Yogi. hey greco, the week went ok! the longest i sat was about 10 minutes on wed/thurs/fri, any more and energy got too strong and i thought i may go too far. i had some kundalini burnout but nothing bad. since i wasnt meditating, my habits and grip on my mind also got sloppy though. saturday/sun/mon i set myself up to do whole day meditation. i burned myself out on saturday trying too hard did 11 hours. sunday did about 7 hours. both days had barely any energy, compared to wed/thur/fri. at the time, i was feeling like i was wasting my time. lots of pain / blockages that felt to be "inside my skin" like my nerves were on fire. shifted my focus from the breath to the rubbing of my thumb / index finger to remedy it. tuesday the following week, i finally crossed. i was absent from work due to having the flu, w/c i think helped me! (the flu) i was able to meditate pretty hard just lying in bed, with that "fever induced thoughts" wednesday was dark night. thursday then got 2nd path! if it happened again, i would probably have went for it on friday, a day before the weekend.
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tarin greco Posts: 655 Join Date: 5/14/09 Recent Posts	RE: Staying in A&P til the weekend. Delaying dark night 9/3/09 12:56 PM as a reply to Dark Night Yogi. thats pretty badass. thanks for the report.
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