meditation methods - Witnessing.

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> ..........I have only ever done one kind of

> meditation for 30 years. Sit erect yet easfully

> and watch what arises in the body, the mind, the

> emotions, feelings, thinking...all of it.

> Just watch without judgement.

> I rate it a 10. I like it best because

> it is a practice given by my guru.

> If he had given a different style I would

> like that one best.

>

> Matthew

>

 

 

 

Thank you, Matthew!

 

I used to do a similar mediation some

time back. I called it witnessing. I

think Osho talked a lot about it and

Tolle recommended it too.

 

 

On some reflection and thinking. . . I

found it conscious simulation of Sleep

while staying Awake i.e. a 'trick' of

putting the 'judging' mind to sleep

while the body and 'witness mind'

remains Alert and Awake.

 

 

How do we fall asleep?

 

We lie on bed and. . . and, our

'judging mind' gets turned off. We get

dreams, just like involuntarily

thoughts during day, difference is that

the 'judging mind' is absent to make

comments, label, accept or reject them.

As a result dreams just happen, the

witness knows it; but, there is no

judging mind to make commentary on them

or to make second layer stories around

the dreams [thoughts] occurring.

 

We get all kind of dreams [involuntary

thoughts] during night and all kind of

emotions; but, there is no judging mind

to judge them, to make comments on them

and as a result the dreams

[involuntary thoughts] soon cease. . .

the Witness Mind remains Alone. . .

that is Deep Dreamless Sleep!

 

 

Through witnessing, we attempt to

replicate exactly same thing during the

day. We cease to judge; we let what

feelings, emotions, thoughts just

happen without making any attempt to

judge them or to make any comments on

them. And, pretty soon, the same thing

that happens during Every Night,

happens in Day. . . that is, we enter

Awake Deep Dreamless State. . . which

is traditionally called Samadhi!

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> I used to do a similar mediation some

> time back. I called it witnessing.

 

 

[...]

 

>

>

> On some reflection and thinking. . . I

> found it conscious simulation of Sleep

> while staying Awake i.e. a 'trick' of

> putting the 'judging' mind to sleep

> while the body and 'witness mind'

> remains Alert and Awake.

 

 

 

Though, for some time now, I haven't

done this mediation the same way, now.

 

The difference is that the moment, I

decide to watch - the mind just goes

blank, void, empty of any content and

remains that way as long as I remain

the Alert Watcher. That is, it goes to

the Awake Deep Dreamless Sleep without

traveling through dreams [involuntary

thinking].

 

I yet, am not sure, why and when this

'pattern' changed for me; but, my guess

that it might have occurred because of

few other meditations that I did. One

is the One that I read Ramana recommend:

 

 

- Abide as the Meditator... and,

there is no need to meditate!

 

 

 

 

 

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> How do we fall asleep?

>

> We lie on bed and. . . and, our

> 'judging mind' gets turned off. We get

> dreams, just like involuntarily

> thoughts during day, difference is that

> the 'judging mind' is absent to make

> comments, label, accept or reject them.

> As a result dreams just happen, the

> witness knows it; but, there is no

> judging mind to make commentary on them

> or to make second layer stories around

> the dreams [thoughts] occurring.

>

> We get all kind of dreams [involuntary

> thoughts] during night and all kind of

> emotions; but, there is no judging mind

> to judge them, to make comments on them

> and as a result the dreams

> [involuntary thoughts] soon cease. . .

> the Witness Mind remains Alone. . .

> that is Deep Dreamless Sleep!

>

>

> Through witnessing, we attempt to

> replicate exactly same thing during the

> day. We cease to judge; we let what

> feelings, emotions, thoughts just

> happen without making any attempt to

> judge them or to make any comments on

> them. And, pretty soon, the same thing

> that happens during Every Night,

> happens in Day. . . that is, we enter

> Awake Deep Dreamless State. . . which

> is traditionally called Samadhi!

>