Paweł K:
About week ago I contemplated intensively on Diamond sutta, and this quote from it
"Subhuti, if someone were to offer an immeasurable quantity of the seven treasures to fill the worlds as infinite as space as an act of generosity, the happiness resulting from that virtuous act would not equal the happiness resulting from a son or daughter of a good family who gives rise to the awakened mind and reads, recites, accepts, and puts into practice this sutra, and explains it to others, even if only a gatha of four lines. In what spirit is this explanation given? Without being caught up in signs, just according to things as they are, without agitation. Why is this?
"All composed things are like a dream,
a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
That is how to meditate on them,
that is how to observe them."
and suddenly got strange 'crystallized' state of mind in which there is no movement
Contemplating it cuts every notion of anything mind, all conditioned things just stops, and there is this clarity and crystal-like feel to every sensation. When I am in bliss it stops all bliss. When I am in some kind of suffering from entanglement it stops all that. Nothing alive, nothing dead, just kinda frozen. It is also perfect for meditation as it doesn't need any object, any sensation, it deny there being anything real to meditate on.
When 'normal' sensations start creeping in then their most prominent quality is 'alive' by which I mean that they are moving, vibrating, entangled with mind. Every state or jhana I experienced so far was far more 'alive' and normal than this so it doesn't seem to be jhana...
Anybody know name of this state of mind? maybe some sutta or book where it is described?
Hey Pawel, I call, would call this Fourth Jhana, No ego, or just a tiny tiny ego, no thinking, no sukkha, no multiple sensations arising, just balanced , locked in, equanimity.
Of course , as all this happens in mind moments, one could, bob out and back in of the mind state, like a fisherman cork on the surface of the water when getting a nibble fromm a fish. So, one can observe the differences of the mind state, and the thinking about the mind state. But when one is within the mind state, one will not be able to think about the mind state.
State of Equanimity, nothing else. Deep Samadhi.
But, as I am not in your mind , it could be something else, for instance if very deep, could be no-thingness, or neither perception nor non-perception, but I don't think so.
It could also be the mind has entered a deeper level of a deeper level...
Or, perhaps I do not know, our minds work differently, in regards to visualization anyway...
Just some thoughts.
Psi
