Vipassana

August 15, 2006

I have not covered this yet but Dharmawayfarer's experience asks for

a discussion of this practice. I have heard the internal tones all

of my life. Sometimes I harmonize with them. I hear the " One " tone

constantly now. Here is an article about the Vipassana.

Vipassana Meditation: The Sound Current and Vipassana Meditation

By Kiara Windrider

The practice of the ?sound current,? also known as the ?divine

sound,? is a foundational practice of linking directly with the soul

and I AM Presence. It comes from the Himalayan masters of ancient

India, and is a foundation for the practice of ?nada yoga,? ?sahaj

yoga,? Babaji?s ?kriya yoga,? as well as Sikh practices like ?shabda

yoga.?

When electricity runs through a power line it produces a humming

sound. Likewise, when higher spiritual energies run through the

circuitry of the human body, there is an interface between the two

energy fields that we can hear within our heads as a current of

sound. All creation is a manifestation of sound, the eternal ?OM.?

This same sound can be heard and felt within our own bodies. You

might first experience this as a very subtle tone, so subtle it is

almost subliminal. Later, or in deeper states of meditation, it

could become so loud it drowns out everything else in its vibrancy.

The sound current could be experienced differently, depending on the

degree of one?s inner attunement. You might hear it as a buzzing, or

a ringing, or the sound of waves along the shore. It could be a

clear ringing tone or the roar of thunder. However it is first

experienced, as you bring your attention to that sound it becomes

stronger and more coherent, until it eventually merges into the ?

music of the spheres,? the primordial sound. The sound current is a

very sweet sensation of subtle sound. In the beginning it might help

to cover the ears, or go someplace where you can be absolutely

quiet. As you become more accomplished with this practice, you hear

this tone constantly, and it serves as a continuous link with the

soul.

After some practice you might notice that this pitch changes as your

brain wave rhythms change. It also changes when you are in the

presence of higher vibrational beings like the ascended masters. You

can begin to distinguish the energies of the different masters by

the difference in tone. Likewise, when you are out in nature, taking

the time to soak in the vibrancy of sounds and colors around, you

begin to notice changes in the sound current as you connect with

various ele-mental energies and nature spirits. As you match

frequency with another being through the sound current, you might

find that there is a deeper level of communication that begins to

happen.

This same principle also applies to areas within your own body. The

state of cellular health has to do with the frequency to which it

vibrates. As we pay attention to the sound current, it lifts the

vibrational frequency of each cell into greater octaves of health

and vibrancy. You begin to communicate with your cells, and they

begin to communicate with you. This is the foundation for ascension

mastery on the physical level.

Most people first experience this tone inside the head, perhaps

closer to one ear or the other. In Shabda Yoga, the sound current is

said to usually enter through the right ear, and practitioners are

warned not to go out on the sound if it came in through the left

ear. If it stays in the right ear, practitioners are encouraged to

experience it in the very center of the head. Notice where you hear

this sound current. Over time, you may find that you begin to hear

it through every cell of your?body. You begin to observe how it

corresponds with various sensations, until eventually the denser

sensations give way to subtle currents of blissful light.

The practice of vipassana is an ancient Buddhist teaching for

experiencing full body enlightenment through the awareness of

sensations. The term ?vipassana? means ?insight,? -insight into the

truths of impermanence, suffering, and liberation from suffering

through experience of the ?no-self.? The Buddha taught that

sensations in the body are the doorway to the deepest levels of the

mind, and therefore the deepest levels of enlightenment. Energy

follows attention, and as we bring our awareness into our body, its

vibrational resonance begins to change. We find over time that what

we have experienced as gross matter is teeming with subatomic

currents of light. Eventually we enter into these currents, and

experience ourselves in bodies of light.

We begin by learning to simply experience things?for what they are,

without trying to change anything, without trying to repress

unpleasant sensations, without craving for pleasant sensations. As

we experience sensations for what they are, we experience the

loosening up of karmic knots that we have carried in our

consciousness for lifetimes. We bring our attention back and forth

through the body, from head to feet and feet to head, all the while

remaining in a state of equanimity. Like the sound current, the

practice of vipassana meditation is deceptively simple, yet capable

of leading us to the highest realms of spiritual experience.

Emotions may come up to be cleared. As that happens, we simply look

to see where we experience those emotions, and translate them into

sensations in the body. It is not important to ?process? these

through the mind. The body carries karmic imprints known as ?

sankaras? or ?miasms.? When these are seen for what they are,

without resistance and without attachment, they simply dissolve.

Profound physical and emotional healing is possible in this manner,

as well as deep levels of soul or God-realization.

Please be aware that all the meditations in this section of the book

are designed to take you into deep altered states where unified

consciousness can occur. If you find yourself falling ?asleep? in

the beginning, know that your submerged mind is still receiving the

energy. Eventually, as the bridge gets made, you will find yourself

able to access your multidimensional self more consciously.

The following narration incorporates the ?sound current? and ?

vipassana? meditation. For further information on the practice of

vipassana meditation retreats worldwide, please visit?

www.dhamma.org.

Let yourself listen now to the sounds around you. You are reaching

out with all of your senses as you listen. You are -listening for

every sound, the spaces between the sounds, and -letting the

external sounds take you deeper and deeper into the silence within.

Now turn your attention inwards. Listen to the silence. Listen to

the ?sound current? within that silence as you let your breath

become slow and subtle. The sound current is a rich subtle tone or

hum that you hear, either subliminally or audibly, in the center of

your head. It is the still, small voice of God within. It is your

soul?s link into your central nervous system. As you open into that

silence, feel the gratitude and joy of just being, of being a part

of this great divine plan of creation in every moment.

Let yourself deepen now into the experience of the sound current???.

And now we will combine the practice of listening to the sound

current with becoming aware of sensations through the body as part

of the practice of vipassana meditation. Bring your attention to the

top of your head and become aware of sensations in your body. It

could be any sensation?it could be vibration, pulsing, or tingling;

it could be throbbing, or a sense of pressure, or even pain. You

might experience heat or coolness, or perhaps subtle energies that

feel balanced or even. Or perhaps you experience numbness or the

absence of any feeling. It is not even necessary to find a name for

what you are experiencing. Just experience whatever it is that you

are sensing without trying to change anything. Slowly move your

attention through different parts of your body. From the top of your

head, bring your attention into your forehead and along the temples,

along every part of the scalp, and then the eyes, and deep into the

eyeballs. Become aware of sensations and then simultaneously listen

beyond the sensations to the tone, to the sound current. It?s like a

cellular frequency, a cellular vibration.

Gradually moving down to your nose, your cheeks, out to your ears,

down to your mouth, your lips, chin, and jaw. Moving down the back

of the neck, down to the throat, and then moving your attention from

one side of the head through the center of the head, slowly moving

through to the other side and then back. And then from the front of

your head slowly moving through to the back of your head and then

once again to the front. As you bring your attention to every cell

within the body, surface as well as deep, energy follows your

attention. Your body is waking up, reclaiming itself, remembering.

Make sure you are experiencing actual physical sensations directly

within the body, rather than something you are only visualizing in

your mind?s eye.

And now moving from the throat down the shoulders, perhaps one

shoulder, one arm at a time. Become aware of any tightness, any

soreness in that shoulder, any tingling or vibration or pulsing, the

grosser sensations as well as the subtler sensations. Just being

aware of whatever you experience without in any way trying to change

it, or judge it. Moving down the arm to the elbow, the surface of

the body as well as the deeper muscle tissue and bone. Notice the

differences of sensation in different densities.

Let your breath become circular, the inhale following the exhale,

which follows the inhale, without pausing in between. As you

continue to breathe in a circle, become aware of places where you

tend to hold your breath. This is where energy patterns have become

stuck in the body. Allow yourself to breathe right through these

places. Move down to the wrist now, and then the palm of the hand

and the back of the hand, all the way down to each finger, and the

tips of each finger, experiencing all the sensations, surface and

deep, not leaving out any part of your body.

Now starting down the other shoulder and arm, moving your attention

slowly part by part down the arm experiencing all the sensations you

possibly can without labeling them, without trying to define them or

judge?them. Just experience it as sensation, pure?sensation. Down to

the elbow now, moving down to the forearm and the wrist. If you

experience pain, become aware of the components of this pain, where

it begins, how far it extends, what it is made of. Become aware of

sub-sensations within that pain. Moving down your hand, the fingers,

front and back, and then the fingertips, aware of slight variances

at different depths and layers, vibration, pulsing, pressure, and

temperature.

Now move your attention down the front of your body?from the throat

down to the chest, the lung cavity, the rib cage and the sternum,

down through your heart and the internal organs. Slowly moving down

to the abdominal area, the solar plexus, the belly, the internal

organs in your belly cavity, down to the pelvis and the genitals.

You are aware of sensations, whatever sensations you experience,

simply being aware, all the while remaining totally equanamous.

Moving down the back now, starting with the shoulders and the

shoulder blades, experiencing sensations within your spine, the

muscles along your back, the tissues, and the bones. Slowly moving

down to the middle back and then to the lower back.

Now allow your awareness to penetrate right through the body, from

the front of the body through the center and out the back, and then

from the back of the body through the center and out the front.

Continue this way as you slowly move down the trunk of the body,

beginning from the throat, moving through the layers down to the

waist and the pelvis. Then bring your awareness from the right side

of your body through the center and out the left, and then from the

left side of your body through the center and out the right, passing

through all the deeper organs, bones, tissues. Allow your breath to

continue flowing in a circular fashion without holding or

interference. Let your breath become very, very subtle. The more

subtle?the breath, the more you can feel the subtle sensations.

And we come down to the buttocks. And now move your attention down

one leg, down the thigh, surface as well as deep, front and back,

and side to side. Just paying attention to any and all feelings, any

and all sensations. Again, without trying to change them in any way,

just observing, witnessing, being with, allowing. Let yourself feel

gratitude for your body, this wonderful, amazing body, this

intricate network of cells and organs held together and functioning

in such a miraculous way.

Moving down now to the knee and the lower leg, really being with

your body now, aware of the energy flows, noticing how each flow of

energy is arising and falling, arising and falling, in continual

change. Moving down to the lower leg, the ankle, the top and bottom

of the foot, down to the extremities. Allow yourself to feel all the

pulsing rhythms, every -sensation. Allow your breath to be natural.

It might change from time to time as your body opens up.

Now moving down the other leg. Down the thigh, slowly moving down to

the knee, back and front, and then side to side. Down through the

lower leg, feeling the subtle electricity, down to the ankle, the

top and bottom of that foot, and all the way down to your toes.

And now we are going to switch directions and start moving up the

body. This time let?s do it simultaneously up both legs, and then

simultaneously up both arms. A little faster this time. Once you

become aware of your body part by part, you can also ?sweep? through

your body, and experience the flows of energy through the electrical

channels. So, a little faster this time. Moving up both legs

together, starting with the toes, moving up the feet, up the ankles,

the lower legs, front and back, up to the knees, up the thighs,

through the entire pelvic region.

Moving up the front of your body, sweeping up to your throat, then

moving up the back of the body, sweeping up to your neck. And now

starting with the fingertips, moving up both arms simultaneously -

up the hands, the wrists, forearms, up to your elbows, upper arms.

And then from the shoulders, moving up into the neck, front and

back; moving up the face, experiencing all the sensations as you go

along?up to the chin, mouth, nose, cheeks, eyes, temples, ears, and

forehead. Moving up the back of the neck, all along the scalp and up

to the very top of your head once more.

(Depending on time available, you may wish to go back and forth from

head to feet several times more.)

Now, get a sense of your whole body, together, as a single unit. And

again, listen for the sound current. Notice if it?s changed or

deepened, and listen again to all sounds within and without,

noticing how you?ve become a part of each sound. A subtle current of

sound begins to vibrate through your entire body, and takes you into

a deep, deep stillness. Remain in this profound stillness now,

letting go of any thoughts, any effort, any activity.

When you?re ready, gently come back into outer awareness.

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August 15, 2006

Hi Chris,

Kiara's recounting of the Vipassana guided mediation practice/process is very

accurate. Arising out of doors to the subtler awarenesses that are opened with

this practice (with emphasis of long and frequent sits to really go deep), the

likelihood of encountering the 'music of the spheres' (as Plato referred to the

Divine Hummmm) increases considerably. It's something that I experienced, or

was aware of off and on for a lot of my life, but paid no attention to it.

Since the full awakening, it progressively became a non-stop constant (be still

for a second and it's 'there'), just as is the continuous experience of the

micro-macro cosmic orbit, with every subtle breath, the flow is infused, whether

standing at the check-out counter at the supermarket, driving to work, or

sitting - the sensation of all the enlivened bhindus/molecules (like tiny

effervescent bubbles) throughout the body, gentle surges, sometimes strong ones,

pulsating (like a strong hand progressively

gripping and squeezing the spinal cord), the merging of energies in the heart

which expands, just becomes the 'new normal' ... always happening in the

background, and never further away than just placing for a micro-second,

attention on subtle breath ... and one becomes aware that the 'wind channels'

(as the Tibetans refer to it I believe) are widening until I think in completion

stages even the sense of channel dissolves ... and becomes all and only flow,

with the completed mixing of energies in the heart. At around this time, the

sense of flow while still 'sensable' from the base of the spine, becomes more

pronounced, at least in my experience of it, but is superceded with awareness of

a a seemingly stronger smaller orbit from the heart/plexus to throat, third eye

and crown - often with the crown feeling as if it truly is one, that rings the

head and is alight and is circulating energy both ways. At this time, while

acknowledging and surrendering to the activity of the

crown and third eye (it kinda does it's own thing , I choose to place and try

and redirect most of my emphasis on the heart, invoking deity to merge, expand

and be welcome there, expressing Metta, loving kindness.

Alex

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