RE: Meditation Log | Book I: 土 (Earth) - Discussion
I like the idea of having a Practice Journal here. I also like the idea of creating multiple "Posts" as if I were separating my logs into "books", so I gave this an interesting title based on my Latest Dream with Daniel M Ingram.
Without further ado, let's start
Without further ado, let's start
- date: 20241223
- object: earth kasina
- duration: 30 minutes
- goal: develop samadhi whilst balancing energy (counterbalance intense kasina practice of two days prior)
takeaways
- when excited about developing stronger concentration, let it develop naturally. Blocking the excitement because “it's not part of the meditation object” will diminish attention
- attempt to maintain natural blinking whilst doing visual kasina practice
See you next time
- object: earth kasina
- duration: 30 minutes
- goal: develop samadhi whilst balancing energy (counterbalance intense kasina practice of two days prior)
I set a timer and started. My earth kasina was a brown rock I picked up at a close venue - I walked and went back there reciting an "Earth Mantra" but my concentration was waning.
I placed the rock roughly 0.75m away from me and started focusing on it. Padma Asana, afternoon.
I soon noticed that the space around the rock was filled with white, yellow glowing aura, which I can link to tiredness of my non-blinking eyes. I tried amplifying that effect but, at first, as I glanced at it, the aura seemed to escape from the center of my gaze, and go around other areas of the rock. Its silhouette was extremely clear and rough, due to the light contrast.
As my concentration developed, I felt mild raptures, obviously the aforementioned visual small rapture, but soon smaller chakra balances, faint pleasure. The most interesting raptures was noticing that, as my view became more spacious, the color of all the area of the floor around the rock seemed to acquire a more golden color, with a dint mixture of green.
In the highest point of concentration - I was focusing on the glowing aura around the rock - my excitement was too big and I immediately dropped a bit on concentration. I made a mental note to observe this in further practices.
I experimented on closing my eyes and blinking more often. Such as with the Fire Kasina, I could see lights inside my closed eyelids, although they were way more pronounced than after looking straight into a flame, and more difficult to hold onto the visual field.
As I blinked more, the effect of the glowing area was greatly diminished, which made me attribute the effect partially to tiredness of the eyes. I then attempted to blink naturally, spontaneously.
The practice had much more details, but this is a good summary.
I placed the rock roughly 0.75m away from me and started focusing on it. Padma Asana, afternoon.
I soon noticed that the space around the rock was filled with white, yellow glowing aura, which I can link to tiredness of my non-blinking eyes. I tried amplifying that effect but, at first, as I glanced at it, the aura seemed to escape from the center of my gaze, and go around other areas of the rock. Its silhouette was extremely clear and rough, due to the light contrast.
As my concentration developed, I felt mild raptures, obviously the aforementioned visual small rapture, but soon smaller chakra balances, faint pleasure. The most interesting raptures was noticing that, as my view became more spacious, the color of all the area of the floor around the rock seemed to acquire a more golden color, with a dint mixture of green.
In the highest point of concentration - I was focusing on the glowing aura around the rock - my excitement was too big and I immediately dropped a bit on concentration. I made a mental note to observe this in further practices.
I experimented on closing my eyes and blinking more often. Such as with the Fire Kasina, I could see lights inside my closed eyelids, although they were way more pronounced than after looking straight into a flame, and more difficult to hold onto the visual field.
As I blinked more, the effect of the glowing area was greatly diminished, which made me attribute the effect partially to tiredness of the eyes. I then attempted to blink naturally, spontaneously.
The practice had much more details, but this is a good summary.
takeaways
- when excited about developing stronger concentration, let it develop naturally. Blocking the excitement because “it's not part of the meditation object” will diminish attention
- attempt to maintain natural blinking whilst doing visual kasina practice
See you next time
