Discussion Forum Discussion Forum

Vipassana: Noting/Mahasi Style

RE: Noting and the Three Characteristics (in MCTB)

Toggle
RE: Noting and the Three Characteristics (in MCTB)
Answer
7/22/14 12:59 AM as a reply to Michael Oliver Holmes.
When sensations get fast, consider dropping to monosyllabic blips or dats or something like that or just dropping the noting entirely and staying with rapidly arising and vanishing sensations.

Definitely use the Three Characteristics as a filter once you get fast and consistent enough.

Start by identifying your objects, then break them down into their component sensations and see their true nature whenever possible.

The book you mentioned in your email, Practical Insight Meditation: Basic and Progressive Stages, is the book I mentioned. You can find it in the wiki noted above and many other places.

RE: Noting and the Three Characteristics (in MCTB)
Answer
7/23/14 1:42 AM as a reply to Daniel M. Ingram.
Thanks. Great help (and the book too).

I still don't get how I "use them as a filter". Do I...

1 ...keep them in mind while meditating? Maybe reminding myself from time to time: "Everything is impermanent" etc. I easily start philosophizing...
2 ...sort of "prime" my mind on one of the concepts by trying to get an intuitive feel for it?
3 ...just focus on noting as much as possible, trusting the process, waiting for the moment to say: "See! Unsatisfactoriness!"?
4 ...wait for one of the three C's to become obvious for the first time in one or two sensations and then try to see it in all of them?
5 ...do something else entirely?
6 ...experiment with all of the above?