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Blinking meditation
Jeroen
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matterNetherlands Veteran
in Meditation
Have you ever tried it? It's very interesting.. if you blink your eyes several times in succession and focus your attention fiercely up, you will experience a kind of expansion. If you keep doing it you can extend further and further. For me it causes my feet to start tingling quite intensely. It seems to cleanse the attention of noise... or maybe that's just me.
I was doing this just after some vipassāna, so that's why I thought of it as a form of meditation...
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When I first read the title "Blinking Meditation" my first thought was of someone becoming annoyed with meditation practice...
Blinking =used to express annoyance...
During my stint with a Dzogchen sangha, we meditated with half-opened eyes and breathed through the mouth.
It was interesting, but I never got used to it.
Personally, I prefer not to experiment with my meditation for bodily sensations but keep it simple and to the point, with the purpose of stilling my mind and for development of insight.
Otherwise, it feels like missing the forest for the tree.
Imagine what it might have been if I had said 'bleeding meditation' or 'blinding meditation'...
Yus, it's bleedin' confusing.
Bloody oath mate