| | After 3 days anapana samadhi practice:
1 visited by diamond point of light frequently but it never hung around - nimitta?
2 during session in my room: hot lips, then my attention drawn away, something shifted / slipped and then gentle leg and arm spasms followed by very contented feeling (sukha?) (filling my body) - vitakka and vicara present. Concentration clear felt could stay there but then gong went for next session so I had to come out - 1st Jhana?
After 7 days - vipassana practice but doing occasional samadhi session in my room:
3 as number two above but then something else happened. I felt a internal movement then realised I was at the centre of an expanding circle awareness felt clearer and sukha / piti slipped away. Then the gong went for next group session and I had to come out of it - something / nothing?
After 8 days during group sitting practicing scanning
4 various miscellaneous phenomena inc; light show behind eyes, heavy pressure behind forehead, distortions of size and positions of parts of body, and lots of pain in back, shoulders and stomach - ?
5 a patch on my face about 1 cm square dissolved - a place of emptiness arose there but paradoxically filled with vibrating strings I had thought that 'this was not self, could not be self' and for 1st time realised anatta experientially rather than intellectually. I also thought if my whole body was like that I would be but 'there would be no I - cool'. The hole / empty space lasted about 3-5 mins - something / nothing?
Anyone know of a good critique or comparison of Goenka Vippassana technique compared to others - advantages / disadvantages.
Help putting experiences into context - sorting the wheat (if any) from the chaff. |