Track Your Progress: Keep a meditation journal to track your experiences and any changes you notice over time.
Hmm
who knows what gibberish I'm currently penning here?
It's okay, I can understand you @how , I'm fluent in Gibberish...
Hope your recovery is a speedy one... ....
Being a Sangha based crustacean, I value the experience of @Linc and those who have gone before. I am moving towards a hosted servicing. As usual I expect:
I'll be on the shore line, with an umbrella based soft drink … if anyone does anything …
What Meditation Is About
Making friends with monkey mind....so it doesn't run amuck ...
In the sutras it says the Buddha awakened many, but other than that I don’t know of anyone who claims to have even one enlightened student. So finding a teacher of that calibre is not going to be easy.
How do you observe yourself?
I'm reminded of Mr Watts...
"There was a young (wo)man who said though, it seems I know that I know, what I would like to see is the "I" that knows me when I know that I know that I know
At cushion time (and off cushion time, but not as often as on cushion time) "I" begin to fade as the mind's eye opens...
I guess one could call it the third eye ("I")... The eye (or "I") which is conscious of being aware of being aware of the sense of itself in motion... thoughts feelings e(nergy in) motion...
When I am doing something complex like cooking which involves multiple tasks to track at the same time, I often lose self observation entirely, and find myself back in “just doing”. I have this while bicycling as well… there’s balance, steering, speed, the traffic, and the rushing environment to consider, and it’s altogether too complex an activity to not be wholly engaged.
This happens a lot when one is driving, the mind switches to autopilot. cruise mode while it's tied up in thoughts for most of the journey... Wow I've just had an epiphany...the car becomes a "Self driving car"
Looks like a face in the background, just above to the right ...nose brow and forehead ....
It looks interesting...Thanks @lobster
Back in the early 70s my cousin and her partner were into Scientology...I was going through a drug related mind warp at the time, and they recommended I attend one of their sessions (just like the one at the beginning of the Going Clear video), they got me to hold the two devices while they asked me a series of questions...
Anyhow the first session was free, I only attended one session and that was enough... A fat lot of good it did me, look how I turned out ...Sell crazy someplace else... We're all stocked up here
Chogyam Trungpa was/is a Buddha, it's just your impure view that inhibits you from seeing that. He never claimed to be a god or highly realized. However, he was/is highly realized and that's just how it is. He spread the dharma throughout the west in a way few others have. We all owe him a great deal of gratitude. No one should follow any teacher mindlessly, but we should all follow a teacher. Trungpa Rinpoche wasn't a teacher for everyone, but I know several of his students and all of them are beyond grateful for his instruction.