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VISIONS
i've read anumber of times about experiencing spontaneous visions and visualizations or what have you of flowers, stars, pretty colors etc while in some sort of meditative trance. i think i've seen rainbow colored lights before when meditating, and another time i saw gems or rubies or marbles arranged in a constellation like stars, though that came when i was drugged by being asleep, though it was still different from the usual dream experience. what does everyone know about these sort of things and have you experienced them before, vividly?
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Then I was asleep for the night and woke up and spontaneously did the practice. I saw a huge kind of like one of those prisms that makes rainbows that you can hang. In my minds eye only it was made of green light. I didn't really have a feeling of my crown chakra, dunno what that would feel like, but I did have a good feeling.
It left me wondering about the mysteries and I also felt a connection to that book from then on.
It means you were distracted.
The mind can conjure up all kinds of images. Most of the time it's not anything special or significant. When it happens again, just note it and bring your attention back to your breath.
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As you continue to pursue your practice you'll notice things like this coming up once in a while. But as Richard said these things are just distractions from practice. It's important not to start chasing them and attaching or attributing meaning to them because there's no way to know, at this stage at least, if they do possess meaning of any kind. They usually don't. They're usually just another form of mental chatter or clutter.
The human mind is incredibly convoluted and complex and all sorts of visual, aural, and touch sensations are going to come and go as you deepen your meditation practice. Don't start thinking that these things are magical or even meaningful. Just let them arise and fall away like all 'thinking'. It's far too easy to get caught up in this fruitless search for meaning. It's simply a time waster and a distraction from the important work you're doing so let them go and get back to the meditation work. You don't have enough time to dilly dally.
As the morning approached, Siddhartha contemplated the vast network of cause and effect itself. He saw how all beings were intimately connected to one another in this vast network of mutual influence and creation. Like a vast net of jewels reflecting each others' light and beauty he saw how all beings arose as part of an unending process of mutual creation. He also saw how ignorance of the true nature of reality was the cause of all the selfish craving which led to suffering, and he saw that this suffering could be ended through a life based upon the truth, the Wonderful Dharma.
have insights about what they mean, but such would just be relevant to your environment, which is constantly changing.
So have confidence in the sensitivity that sees the connections rather than in the visions themselves.
Whether that is what you are experiencing is not currently knowable and as others have said should be noticed but not held onto during meditation. Neuroscientists are discovering some pretty amazing quantifiable things regarding the physical impact of meditation.
When I've told my Tibetan Buddhist teachers about various experiences I've had they've just listened, and then said to let them go and not to become attached at all - - and to keep practising.
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He asked what the meaning is in the context of doing practice. In that context their meaning is relative and conditional, that is what they are, that is what they mean. Do you sit in meditation pondering the symbolic content of your visions?
No, that's not what I was recommending! Letting go and not becoming attached isn't suppressing anything. One just notices experiences if they come, and then one gently lets them go again and brings the attention back with the breath, without becoming fixated or trying to analyse them.