I heard the sounds from my immediate surroundings through the entire meditation. When there were 23 minutes remaining on the preset 61 minutes timer, my attention urged me to open my eyes. The kind of reluctance my attention was showing towards meditation was overcome at different points of the last 26 minutes of the session.
Profound sense of peace makes desired durations achievable. I experienced stronger than usual spinal vibrations. Every sound discerned with shut eyes was given meaning instantly. The imagery formed with every meaning most likely gave rise to a bunch of associated words. The second set of words probably gave rise to even more imagery but I can’t recall any of it. It’s been a while since I have been regularly experiencing the sense of absolute peace overpowering the imagery it came riding on.
I meant to write about it yesterday but yesterday I had a deep meditation to write about. I guess I can write about it today since I have had a relatively shallow meditation last night. Here goes.
In meditation, our sense of smell can’t be undone because scores of meditation techniques use breathing as an instrument. We are able to shut our eyes during meditation. We can create a suitable environment that doesn’t make us miserably hot or cold. We are not ingesting while meditating and that is a relief from our sense of taste. It’s the ears that keep picking up stimuli and translating the stimuli into words the individual has a vocabulary in.
There is a way to physically block the ears like those long distance frequent flyers. However, I haven’t used sound mufflers much. In all the 20+ years that I have been meditating, I can count on my fingers the number of times I have used ear plugs while meditating. My meditational experience with regards my ears is that they are hypersensitive to stimuli.
It is almost as if my life depends on being able to discern the sound. My brain can’t help but turn every sound to the word that describes the sound. Meaning is granted instantly, even if the meaning turns out to be misplaced. I have enjoyed the meditational phenomenon of hearing sounds coming from inside my head during meditation. While listening in the moment, those clicks, clacks, ticks and flicks were simply those sounds.
Between June and December of 2023, the sounds came during my meditations in such quick succession that all I did was follow it without always being able to turn it into a word that describes any sound I know from my memory of sounds.
That much needed presence of mind is required to undo one’s reliance on one’s memory in order to meditate. Once a meditator can hear the profound silence of absolute peace, there is no need to ruin the silence by making a prayer. The attention has to be urged gently to follow the great silence of the deep sleeping mind space.
Im Zentrum des öffentlich zugänglichen, parkartigen Straßenhofs befindet sich der "Frühlingsbrunnen" mit einer lebensgroßen Knabenfigur von Anton Endstorfer (1912).
V práci se mi dařilo. Vypracovala jsem šikovnou tabulku na skladový zásoby, připravila jsem se na grilování na příštím dispečinku, naučila se pár novejch věcí a na obědě jsem si s ženskejma fajn pokecala. Po práci jsem vytrhla N. ze stěhovací mánie, protože by to byla schopná dělat až do noci a byl pomalu čas na podvečerní trojboj: nakrmit, vykoupat, uspat. Načerpáme síly a zítra jdeme stěhovat a třídit a vyhazovat věci, co už nám nepřináší radost.