Just wanted to put in a plug for this book:
Experiencing and the Creation of Meaning by Eugene T Gendlin
http://www.amazon.com/Experiencing-Creation-Meaning-Philosophical-Psychological/dp/0810114275This book "healed" my meditation practice. I was missing/avoiding a vast and immediate landscape in my awareness, and this book served as "pointing out instructions" to help me find it. It cleared up a huge amount of mystery anxiety that flared up every time I sat down to meditate.
If you're using, say, Shinzen's system, I think Gendlin's "felt sense" or "experiencing" is a different beast than Shinzen's "subtle feel" and "subtle talk." I'm inching my way through the Visuddhimagga right now, to see if there's anything comparable.
Poorly formatted preface to the new edition:
http://www.focusing.org/gendlin/docs/gol_2152.htmlThe book is rough going. Stick it out through the intro and chapters 1 and 2. (Definitely read them all: they pave the way for chapter 3.) Chapter 3 is payoff: precisely formulated, bare-sensation/in-your-face phenomenology. Again, hard work, but highly recommended. (If you make it to the end, "iofi" will blow your mind as another totally practical pointing out instruction.)
IMHO, anyway. Hope this helps someone!
-M
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