Just as having awareness of a landscape means drawing in every detail with your eyesor hearing a symphony means taking in every detail with your own ears; so, being conscious of the inner world of intuition and awareness, means tuning in to every proprioceptive signal from your body. Symphonies and landscapes benefit from this approach by the way.
Prayer is another form of meditation, including Christian prayer. There are different levels of prayer, from petitionary where one asks for something to allowing what is to be and connecting with oneness and being thankful for it instead of asking for something.
Because I couldn’t find a comfortable seating position during 19, the next four days was hell for me. The entire left side of my body from my hip down continued to fall asleep. I tried using several cushions, sitting positions and a box. I asked if I could try a pillow that had a back support. It made a massive difference. I would suggest the first thing anyone does is find a comfortable position to sit in. I wish I’d have asked for the service the very first day.
Unfortunately this vipassana meditation also had some negative effects.Because I did not go out any 11, I lost friends. They said I’d become boring and not fun. But my friends stayed and my connection with them deepened. We had fun in different ways and they loved it as much as me. They went without me, when they wanted to go to the bar. When they wanted to spend time they did. People started to accept but in the beginning it was hard to be tugged to attempt to get you to fall back into your old ways.
You will observe, that what is aware does not have a form, it is unmovable it is beyond thought it is timeless, eternal. The identity that is separate starts to dissolve into formless awareness. You discover a True dhamma Self. You are aware of being aware. Through you the Awareness becomes conscious of itself. The sense of Oneness, inner peace and liberty is restored. You come back where you become whole and healed again, loving and trusting what’s, feeling appreciation and gratitude for all gifts of life. This is a intention of Silent Meditation.
Individuals are free to be nude in the baths. Just the occasional person wearing a bathing suit seems somehow out of sync to me. People today respect their own comfort level. Soaking and relaxation are good and healthful things. Massage and the baths go together well.
People have lost the capacity for satiety, have become addicted to stuffing themselves even though it’s killing them, and they are teaching their kids the habit. (We eat and eat and eat, we eat ourselves!) . However, I love people and being human. A style of Buddhist meditation, what is vipassana is practiced by me. The heart of the teaching is all about cultivating loving kindness with others and ourselves as we aspire to end suffering for all sentient beings. Being a mom who read my son a lot of Dr. Seuss, I chuckle every time I sing Nobody eats us! We ai not no green eggs and ham.
Kirsten could have stayed up there. She was always content and was the consummate lounger hanging out. Each other well balanced. Her mellow attitude was willing to acquiesce to my need so everything work out well as trekking partners.