Some people find themselves to be swinging inadvertently while focusing on inhaling and exhaling. In case you’ve got a similar experience, simply say,’swinging, swinging’. While you’re concentrating on it. Regardless of this concentration, if swinging becomes wilder, either lean against a wall or lie on your bed, while emphasizing it. The swinging will disappear.
dhamma Sit on a pillow on the floor with your legs crossed.Sit on a seat, if this isn’t possible. In order to have good concentration, it’s important to not be in pain. However you sit, be sure your spine is straight.
Within this observation it is easy to see breathing is occurring. You do not have to breathe, breathing only occurs. The breath goes in, the breath goes out. Notice your breathing without becoming involved with it in anyway.
Rise and shine – morning meditation If you wake up in the morning relax your body while you’re still lying in bed. Then sit up and wrap your duvet. Bring your attention and let it get deeper without forcing it at all. Focus on your heart chakra ( vipassana meditation at the middle of your chest) and feel warmth spreading through your body as you breathe. Continue for five minutes, then stretch (ideally a Dru Yoga sequence!) And start.
We sympathize with sorrow and all the unhappiness of others. We help people all of the time, and this is great and kind of us. But we don’t realize that we are suffering. Everything that happens in the world affects us all. The desire for more of everything is a factor that leaves behind discontentment and unhappiness.
When you wish to sit, say,’needing to sit’. Where you are going to sit, concentrate on your steps, saying the words that are appropriate, when you are walking to the place , as before. When you reach that place, say, ‘reaching’. When you turn say,’turning’. When you wish to sit, say,’wanting to sit’. When you sitting say,’sitting sitting’. You have to be aware of every movement of sitting. Just after you’ve sat, there may be a few moves of your hands and legs. Say the words that are right while you are concentrating on every movement. Following that, concentrate on exhaling and inhaling.
Now I could finally focus on meditating. The course teaches you the mediation technique in steps. The first step is called. You don’t try to control it or change anything. Just simply observe it. Then you start to narrow your attention to the triangular area at the top of your nose to the top of your lip and narrow it even more to focus on the sensations of the breath only on the region under your nostrils and above your upper lip. Until you learn the technique of ashoka’s dhamma on the fourth day, this technique will help to sharpen your mind.
BN: Yes, the more I live here, the more I know the issues unique to the people here. More are connected by me and I am more sympathetic. And I understand. During the retreats we’ve got the meeting. I come to find that people have a wide selection of problems. Sometimes, I feel as a psychologist. I listen. I realize that people don’t come here only to learn about Buddhism, but to deal with some problem. I notice that individuals would like to know what’s the economy, together with the government, family turmoil, behind their dissatisfaction with areas of life.