When Nothing Pulls You In
Cuando nada te atrae hacia sí
A student describes visual phenomena and relaxing sensations during meditation, and the teacher explains what to do when no friction or contraction is arising.
When Nothing Pulls You In
A student describes visual phenomena and relaxing sensations during meditation, and the teacher explains what to do when no friction or contraction is arising.
In the meditation just now, I could see something like a moving cobweb, and inside the cobweb there was a dot that felt like an eyeball. When you said "friction," I wasn't sure if that was the sort of thing you meant. Also, seeing this isn't giving me any trouble, but when I hear a piano ring, the whole body feels like sitting on a boat in the ocean, gently moving up and down. That sensation is really relaxing.
If you don't find any friction, if there's nothing pulling you into a kind of contraction, just sit with that. Keep sitting, and you can stay with it for as long as you want. In a sense, that's all you need to do. The less you direct your attention into any kind of practice, the better. But this only applies if you're not getting pulled into what I was calling friction.
So I can also direct my attention to tune into some sort of background silence?
Silence is not located anywhere
You could notice that the true silence isn't located anywhere. It's not in the background. Just let it permeate everything. If you don't have this friction coming up, this sense of contraction or getting stuck in narrative, then simply give yourself time to be in that openness.
Okay.
Let insight come on its own
Then you can let what happens happen. The deeper insights: don't look for them. Let them come. They will come if you let the process do whatever it does. There is no need to direct or inquire. If at some point something starts to get activated and you get a sense of stuckness, then you might know how to direct your attention to unstick. But if you're already able to just be in that openness, simply be there.
Yes. Thank you.