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I'm into meditation, how about you?

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I do shikantaza. That is (if you aren't familiar with the Zen Buddhist term), the formless meditation. Or Meditation without a seed (Raja Yoga) (Asamprajnata Dhyana). Aka Vipassana, more or less.

I used to do a lot of concentration meditation. Then I did both for a while (which was a bit too intense). Now I just do the shik.

It's a big thing in my life. It is power and mystery.

How about you?
 

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Meditation with focussing on anything is my ideal but I've found that watching my breath keeps the intrusive thoughts at bay and thus makes empty-mind meditation easier.
 

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I like to focus on my breath until there is nothing else and I can drop that focus too, the void meditation.
When I cannot focus like that too well, or when I simply want to, I chant, which is helping, though to focus on that and detach from it takes some effort too. Brings interesting visions.
 

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Meditation with focussing on anything is my ideal but I've found that watching my breath keeps the intrusive thoughts at bay and thus makes empty-mind meditation easier.
anything to distract that damn left hemisphere! :)
 

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Mindfulness has proven to be quite positive for me.

Also, Kundalini Youga. Me nd some friends have a group and we share a group diary.

Any suggestions and advice will be truly appreciated!
 

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I love meditation. I’m trying to learn visualization. It’s on my happened once. I was fully conscious and it was like I was dreaming. I can see some shapes and certain simple sigils but want to progress further. Any tips is greatly appreciated.
 

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I love meditation. I’m trying to learn visualization. It’s on my happened once. I was fully conscious and it was like I was dreaming. I can see some shapes and certain simple sigils but want to progress further. Any tips is greatly appreciated.
Train each sense individually first, once you can experience one easily, move on to the next. When you have the 5 normal senses all down, start merging them, first 2 at a time, then 3 etc.

Two quick tips. Being in the trance state will speed this up. It is better to start in trance then start the practice, than to eventually get into trance via the practice. Secondly, when it comes to sight, you will normally have an easier time visualizing something moving rather than it being static. A ball bouncing, or a flower in a gentle breeze are much easier to see internally than either of the same as an unmoving thing.

It's important that you don t overlap before ready. not because of danger, but because it can slow you down. for example, smell a scent that is both potent, and familiar to you. let's say it is a spice. you want to smell the spice, without seeing or tasting it etc.

This will give you a basic gauge of where your internal senses are ranked against each other. when you can merge all 5 into a stable visualization, the step after that is to do the same with your eyes open. the same training is done but now eyes open. eventually you will develop hyperphantasia, and be able to experience synestia at will.

Magic becomes much more real at this point in training. and you will notice the effects of your spells/etc take place significantly faster. Even just 20 minutes a day will do wonders if you do this consistently. More time is always better, but quality and quantity have to be balanced.
 
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Train each sense individually first, once you can experience one easily, move on to the next. When you have the 5 normal senses all down, start merging them, first 2 at a time, then 3 etc.

Two quick tips. Being in the trance state will speed this up. It is better to start in trance then start the practice, than to eventually get into trance via the practice. Secondly, when it comes to sight, you will normally have an easier time visualizing something moving rather than it being static. A ball bouncing, or a flower in a gentle breeze are much easier to see internally than either of the same as an unmoving thing.

It's important that you don t overlap before ready. not because of danger, but because it can slow you down. for example, smell a scent that is both potent, and familiar to you. let's say it is a spice. you want to smell the spice, without seeing or tasting it etc.

This will give you a basic gauge of where your internal senses are ranked against each other. when you can merge all 5 into a stable visualization, the step after that is to do the same with your eyes open. the same training is done but now eyes open. eventually you will develop hyperphantasia, and be able to experience synestia at will.

Magic becomes much more real at this point in training. and you will notice the effects of your spells/etc take place significantly faster. Even just 20 minutes a day will do wonders if you do this consistently. More time is always better, but quality and quantity have to be balanced.
love this advice. thank you i'll definitely use this when I get back into meditation.
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I personally love it. Was very useful tool while I first started being a bouncer in nightlife. I usually always set a timer. one time I set one and lost track of time, I forgot to start the timer. I was meditating for 2 hours. just slipped in the zone. loved it. My current Qigong practice restricts visualizations, however, I believe there is a zen meditation Qigong fusion approach that would beg to differ but i'm received until I see testimonials and a little bit more literature.
TLDR : I miss it, I had a 2 hour trance before, and I'll get back into the swing of things.
 
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Nice to see shikantaza mentioned here; my current practice is to begin with the classic vipassana noticing approach, and then when I am settled and decentred from feeling as though all things are arising from some essential core (the big illusion!) I shift the practice into shikantaza and just sit in what arises with no focus or directed attention at all.
 
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