Sunday, May 5, 2013

Time: 45 minutes.

Situation: A quiet room with my eyes closed, sitting Burmese-style with my hands on my knees.

Experience: I closed my eyes and immediately perceived my visual field "vibrating" at about six times per second. Concentration was high but
"vibrations" were slippery and hard to see in their entirety (arising from nothing, doing there thing, vanishing utterly). Awareness shifted to my sense of touch and the "vibrations" sped-up to maybe ten times per second or so. I slipped into a little story and snapped back. "Formations" were evident. Background mental process were objects along with the more traditional five sense-objects. Equanimity was moderate. I seemed to through the "Progress of Insight" until I hit "Equanimity", and then I hung out there. I chanced into "Boundless Consciousness" once or twice but only briefly. I focused on "Not Self", there was an anomaly in concentration, and after that physical wave of rapture in the body. I thought, "hmm, lets try "Impermanence". Same thing happened. Ditto "Unsatisfactoriness". The last ten minutes or so of the session were simply observing "formations".

Observations: Reality is fluxing so fast this time around through the "Progress of Insight" - and the character of the vibrations is FAST AND SLIPPERY. I'm having difficulty seeing objects with clarity and precision and think I may be at the upper-end of my current perceptual abilities. Its very possible that I experienced some "fruitions" today, but its also super possible I didn't. I couldn't "see" well enough to feel comfortable judging.

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