Book title idea: "The Cactus in the Judogi: A Guide to Chopping/Dropping Off the Impediments to Jhāna."
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Replying to @NoaidiX @_StevenFan
Would you define the term absorption within the context of meditative practice relative to the intentionality of the practice?
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Replying to @memeristor @_StevenFan
Absorption here is a translation of the term jhāna, the practice of which often entails withdrawing the sensory-perceptual faculties for progressively deeper states of mental stillness.
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This usually occurs through initial focus on an attentional anchor (e.g., breath), which triggers the onset of internally-generated indicators of heightened concentration (e.g., visual light perception, pleasant bodily sensation, etc.).
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Such experiences largely replace the previous anchor that generated them and, in-turn, they generate increasingly refined anchors to replace them as well, gradually sloughing off the levels of coarseness as newly unearthed subtleties (e.g., equanimity) emerge into the foreground.
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Replying to @NoaidiX @_StevenFan
Thank you absorption seems to be just off base when considered in the context of practice as it implies a nihilistic subsumption or surrender of the mediators intent. That said I can understand it as a best compromise term an indicator of a successive deepening state of practice
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In my terminology the term absorption aptly describes one of the observable passive reactive states of identification characterized by its lack of active intent-fullness. I would suggest that almost every accomplishment in life is done in just that state.
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"Sound is a thorn to the first absorption" it is not uncommon that a materials strength can be increased by exposing it to stress. For example steel is subjected to rapid cooling in order to increase it strength.
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Replying to @memeristor @_StevenFan
On that note, I've found meditating to the sound of running water (e.g., by the flowing stream that runs through the grounds of the monastery where I previously resided) strangely conducive to absorption. In those states, I completely lose track of time and the surrounding world.
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Your mind must find the sound “delightful”! Pleasure builds a virtuous feedback loop
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My mind also tends to find the sound of an MRI "delightful." Was asked to meditate inside one for a study and have fallen asleep from its rhythms on several other occasions—it's that soothing.
It's more relaxation-inducing than rapturous, though, at least in my case.
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That’s a little unusual! Burbling brooks, sure...
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