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  • How to vipassana

    Sit down in your special sitting place. Back straight. Breathe from your belly. Eyes half-closed. Relax

    Watch the river of experience. That is, watch all the sights, sounds, thoughts, feelings etc that you are experiencing right now. Watch that whole thing. Watch experience-stuff come and go. Watch, peaceful like in Samatha but without directing your attention at anything in particular.

    Watch your attention too

    Watch how you sometimes move your attention in reaction to the thoughts, sounds etc. To direct it here or there, at this or that. To think a thought or whatever. When you feel like you are about to react like that, don’t do it. Don’t react. Just keep on watching. Keep your attention relaxed and spread out wide.

    That’s it. That’s the whole technique.


  • analog_fluffy@lemmy.zipBanned from communityOPtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldDo you meditate?
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    I’ve done some breath focus meditation.

    Here’s a thing I learned.

    Breath is a big complicated thing. There’s a feeling in your belly, chest, throat, nose. There’s a sound. There are thoughts.

    That’s a lot to handle. It’s easier th focus on just one of those things.

    I like to focus on the feeling of breath in my nose.