Naad Meditation / Silent Rip
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Sep 24, 2016
MiBeloved 3 years ago
When doing naad meditation be sure to not allow that there is a silent other activity going on in the mind. The minds have this way about where it can silently be doing what is not desirable during a meditation session.
Are you sure you are doing this meditation properly?
Are you being arrogant?
Are you thinking that you are doing this perfectly and still not getting results?
Are you a coarse vulgar person who cannot detect very subtle activity and consider such activity to be no activity at all?
Some students complain that the meditation is working. They are not making progress. Everything is the same as it was years ago. They cannot log a progressive course.
Okay then it is reasonable for such students to dig around and find another method. But be sure that you are really keen on what you are doing since most of the procedure for moving forward has to do with very abstract actions which you can hardly perceive. If your consciousness is essentially gross, then it is likely that you won’t make any progress because whatever happens which is abstract won’t be perceived by you and so for you it will be like nothing happens during the meditation session.
So of course, it is reasonable for you to try some other method where you feel some traction. No one is standing in your way of improving in that way.
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There is what might be termed the silent rip. This is when one does naad sound meditation or back-of-the-head soundless meditation. During this there might be a pull to come to the frontal part of the head and participate in the movie making, slide-show part of the mind.
I did a naad session meditation and then after I was situated in naad and became absorbed more and more in that vibration, I suddenly realized that I was not in naad, I was looking at these sensational scenes in my mind about something which had nothing to do with my aims in meditation.
Anyway I saw these scenes upfront in the mind. This was a big picture screen with some trivial circumstances which I was involved in the day before. Realizing that I was dragged away against my will from naad absorption, I slowly and deliberately turned away from the frontal part of the subtle head and re-situated my interest in naad sound again.
These very vulgar disruptions in meditation are easy to spot and easy to escape from.
The other more subtle and abstract type of distraction is not so easy to figure. In fact most of the very subtle diversions are not even realized because the mind learns how to outsmart the yogi, by allowing the yogi to focus with all his ability on the naad sound, while in the background the mind steals away a small portion of the attention energy of the yogi. This is the silent rip, a type of psychic pilfering done by the mind which eats away at the yogi’s progress without the yogi knowing that it is happening.
On the level of alert consciousness, the mind acts as if it has no interest in distracting the yogi. This give the yogi great confidence, that he is making progress. However the fact is that on another level of the mind, the mind steals away the interest of the yogi and uses it to develop ideas which are counterproductive to a yogic lifestyle.
The mind cannot develop ideas and schemes without using some interest energy from the core self. Thus if it is to keep developing its stake in the material world, it will have to somehow steal energy from the yogi if he is downright against the materialistic way of life.
It is up to the yogi to discover how the mind does this pilfering. Then the yogi can put a stop to this leakage of his attention during the meditation session.
A big mouth will not help. Overconfidence is useless. The yogi has to be humble inside the psyche to come to terms with this.
He cannot boast about this to the public because this happens in a very confidential part of the psyche where he is all alone and blue and gets no help from peer pressure and from showing his colors to others.
