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# Re: requesting help with chapter 1 of IIH

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- Subject: Re: requesting help with chapter 1 of IIH
- From: "SeaWinder" <seawinder@...>
- Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 05:06:19 -0000
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    Hello, all;

    I remember when I first began concentration exercises. I don't
    remember where I found the instructions but what finally helped me,
    (and boy was I plenty frustrated with myself back then) was to happen
    onto instructions given on pranayama yoga, or some buddhist
    meditating exercises.

    I do, however, remember what the specific exercises were that brought
    results. The meditation went like this:

    Try to be quiet with your mind. Any thought that arises just:

    1). Follow it and let it float away like a baloon filled with air.

    2). Try to detect where the thoughts are arising from. When you
    locate the general direction, then think of the thoughts as trees,
    and chop the tree down as close to the root as possible.

    What I found in doing these exercises was that my thoughts arose from
    my chest, the Tiphereth area (the heart chackras in the Eastern
    traditions). In fact at that place I found a lake. And each thought
    occurred on the lake like a drop of water falling and causing rings
    to form on the placid lake top.

    Eventually I was able to keep the lake top quiet for long periods of
    time. Concurrently I was also concentrating on following a sweeping
    second hand on a clock around as it moved. Eventually I was able to
    stop the second hand (freeze it in motion). About that time I also
    experienced samsadhi/nirvana in the experience of experiencing such a
    quiet moment that in a second my consciousness shot out beyond the
    earth, expanded beyond the universe and to the ends of the universe,
    and "immediately" it sprang back and went inside of myself and into
    the center of my chest and became first a molecule and then a nano
    atom planet like our earth in comparison to the universe of that
    molecule. And suddenly I was awakened to normal consciousness. It was
    amazing.

    All of that was because I persevered with the initial meditating
    exercises of allowing my thoughts to rise and leave by following
    them, following my thoughts to their root within myself, and to
    concentrate on one object.

    Though I was horribly frustrated at the beginning, I stuck with it
    and after about 9 months I had results. I can only say that if you
    stick with it you will come out of it with pleasant results.

    Stick with it.

    I Wish You Well,
    Chuck

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  - Re: requesting help with chapter 1 of IIH
    - From: "caltobe" <caltobe@...>

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