Right, the biggest mistake I have made has been to think "what was that", or try to interpret the experience in the moment. Every time I have it has led to a regression in the session. Normally though, it is recoverable, I only must return to the intent of observing.
Yes, I had the same problem. I expect everyone who arrives at the charisms is going to engage the mind in an attempt to interpret and respond to the experience of the charisms. However, when we get used to them, then we stop trying to analyze the experience of deep meditation.
This is very interesting. Thank you for making perspective clear. In regards to the third eye chakra, I do not think its that I seek to cultivate the experience, nor is it that I wish to do anything with this. The driver to my question was perhaps to allow interpretation of the visual experience, yet, if annihilation is what I ultimately seek, then simply showing up for the experience itself is what becomes important.
Hmm, I need to learn to be more self-aware moment to moment and not let curiosity drive me. What would you say helped you the most in contemplating thoughts as they arose, Jhananada? I've thought some to scientific methodology. If i could base my thought process around a clear guideline and not detour from this, I think I could be more self-aware, moment to moment. One of the things I've learned I dislike about myself is I'll go on this tangent here, write out this long 'something or other" only to realize that in doing so Ive allowed myself to contemplate what it was I was talking about, and also that i already had the answer to the question I was asking.
Interesting that if I was to be absorbed throughout the day, as I could and should be, these thoughts would not arise at all. It seems as though at every turn I've attempted to weasel out of the reality of what is. There is only one way.
Good points made here. Tackling the thought process was simply bringing my attention back to thoughtlessness, so that I was not feeding a thought process. However, you are right, the scientific method necessitates the analysis of whatever it is one is studying. So, just meditating several times a day to depth makes it possible to eventually stop analyzing the experience, because it is much the same from session to session, and thus just submit to the process of depth in meditation.
