Chris O.:
I got Second Path
Yesterday morning, I had a huge cessation
this feeling that my lower body did not belong to me, or was not within the "me" bubble, disappeared.
Since the cessation, it appears the mind is in Review.
At this point, about 24 hours later, nothing perceptual feels to have changed; there's no obvious "shift."
feel free to speculate.
Welcome to the fractal nature of practice that is post second. Once this has happened enough times, you just stop asking what cycles have to do with anything.
Get ready for cycles and sub cycles and the variety of expereince that tells you little on where you are from a Mahasi mapping point of view.
Daniel M. Ingram:
So people being to incline their minds towards what I’ll call a less cycle-fixated approach and a more right-here-right-now, an it’s got to be now or never kind of dharma-awakening approach, and they begin to see more and more of what I’ll call emptiness in real time. Whereas they go deeper into more cycles and stages and more really investigating how things are, just moment to moment, same good, old foundation technique stuff, they begin to notice, “Wait a second. The center point really doesn’t seem to be such a big deal anymore. The sense of subject seems to be becoming more integrated with the field, or it seems to become less important,” or they seem to see I’m seeing more of what I’ll call “luminosity of phenomenon”
Daniel M. Ingram:
One thing to think about:
This field is it, totally, completely, so committing to being totally and very clearly present to this field here and now, all the way through, and abandoning the sense of progress in favor of the sense of immediacy, not in the sense of not working to be present to the immediacy, but in terms of starting to habitually perceive everything that has to do with past and future, with progress and stages, with practice and result, with self and other, and all of that as part of this field, right here, no exceptions.
It is like taking the last stand, the total stand, the complete stand, and in that synchronizing with the thing, finally, utterly, the ultimate settling in, the resolving nothing but this.
