I feel these are important diagrams for anyone who meditates or rather who attempts to meditate and finds that the effort is helter skelter, indistinct and uncertain.

It is important to know what other ascetics do in meditation, so that one may compare and find reference and also difference in the experiences. For instance, in the first diagram, the busy cluttered mind is diagramed and there is nothing but the minds harassment and activity. An observer is not shown. It seems that only what was observed was illustrated.

So, I went to Disney world. Someone asked about my experience there. I described what I saw. I had no idea while there that I was an observer and the camera I used could not represent me in the video. There was everything which I saw and was sensually subjected to there, except that in none of it, was I seen.

In the second diagram, the intention for insight is present. The shenanigans of the mind are under cordon like pigs in a fenced area. The mind is no longer being harassed. Instead, suddenly there was an intention for insight, which surrounded the distractions and kept them immobilized. I was aware of it and knew what happened but again I am not present there because the recorder was unable to locate me.

One way to state this is that there is the intention and the trapped confined distractions, along with the invisible presence which realized that the intention was present in an effective way.

In the third diagram, we see that the intention overpowered the mental and emotional distractions, to such an extent of thinning them out. This is encouraging.

In the fourth diagram the mind assumed joy/happiness which was a relief for it when compared to when it was filled with distractions and also when it was in a state where the distractions were cordoned and squeezed.

In the sixth diagram, there is awareness of a meditative seal which has the special feature of being impenetrable to sensual and mental objects. And the observer? In each of the diagrams the observer is absent, but still a description was noted.

Was there only observation but no observer?