Practice Report - 4/23/2013

Meditationtime Forum Post

Date:  Posted 3 years before Oct 13, 2016

bandika 3 years ago

After a short breath infusion practice I lied down to meditate. I placed my consciousness to the back of my head and observed my thoughts and feelings as they gradually disappeared. This happened about 6-8 minutes later. After that I suddenly had a very strong feeling of joy/bliss in my whole body. I could feel that 15-20 minutes after meditation. I didn’t know what to do in this situation, I couldn’t continue the observing process. I don’t even know what happened.

I would be grateful if someone could explain this.

MiBeloved 3 years ago

Do not observe the thoughts. Once you realize that you are doing that, immediately get yourself to be disinterested in them. The best method is to just turn away from them. Usually this thought-image-idea display takes place in the frontal area of the head. Thus as soon as you realize that you are viewing this, then turn away and go in the opposite direction.

Observing that thoughts are taking place would only occur for the moment you realize that you are doing this, and then immediately you should train yourself so that you reflexively turn away and go in the opposite direction.

If you are in a movie house and do not know that you are there, then there is the likelihood that something will happen which will cause you to realize that you are looking at the movie. At that moment of realization, train yourself to just get up and walk in the opposite direction so that you go out of the movie house.

Practice to master this and file post describing how you are progressing with this. Bliss feeling during mediation is nice and is desired. When there is the bliss feeling then stay put in this because this acts as a pacifier to help you to deal with the stress which will come into play as soon as you are out of the meditation.

However doing what I proposed above is also very important.

If you remain in the bliss feelings, you will in time develop supernatural perception and might see in the bliss level environment. You just have to hope like hell that you may advance to have even visual perception on the bliss level.