Awarenesss
Sunday, June 5th, 2005 at 5:50 amWhen you do meditation two things happen. The mind expands and previous experiences from the past bubble up into your awareness. Those past experiences are bubbling up because your mind is expanding. So we can say that the symtom of the expanding mind is the awareness of past experiences arising during meditation or the experience of the feelings of nearness to Divinity. So when any thoughts arise in meditation it is important to acknowledge them. I would like to start a dialogue with people visiting this web page to see what people are doing when the bubbling happens. Anyone like to start? Dada
June 10th, 2005 at 9:07 am
I find that my mind can vary greatly in its experience of meditation. Sometimes thoughts that I have at the time just flow through with the rhythm of my mantra and at others, the mantra takes a step back and my mind becomes involved in the thoughts that come and go. The first one is what I consider to be a more peaceful and satisfying experience of meditation.
An experienced meditation teacher (oh I think it was you!!) once told me to give the mantra to the thoughts, which is a process often use, to varying degrees of success depending on how subtle my mind is at the time.
June 17th, 2005 at 4:59 am
Well I was the one who told you to feed your mantra to your thoughts, those cheeky little devils and angels. Well some of them have been neglected for a long time so they may need some good long drinks of mantra. Give them liberation, I say.
January 8th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
During this bubbling i briefly acknowledge the thoughts /memories,assess their relevance, let them float away, then return my point of focus to the mantra and continue to embrace it as fully as i can