Living with senses instead of living with mind
Understand we are not living with senses. We are living with mind. One way to find out is if we have some fantasy and imagination about drinking, smoking, some physical pleasure, or lust or some food and have an expectation about how it will be then it is living with the mind. If the ecstasy, experience of joy that you experience if it is more than your imagination or expectation then you are living with your senses.
Fantasy is mind. Experience is senses. You yourself can find out if you are living in mind or living in senses. If you are living in senses, then clearing the engraved memories is easy for you. Not living in senses means we are not living naturally. Due to so much of advertisements for food, makes your fantasy about food too big and experience too small. Porn - makes fantasy about lust too big, and experience too lost. You have lost connection with senses. You are living in mind, cerebral layers. Person centered on sense, experiencing the power of intuition and visualization is very easy.
Knowledge and Meditation
These understandings should constantly encourage awareness of the happenings inside. Every time you meet someone or make decisions, having the awareness to see the play of the mind will help you in changing your mental setup. Meditation technique will work on clearing the unconscious zone which has all the engraved memories of the past. Ultimately in Vedic tradition or Jainism we don't believe knowledge can be gained only through sense. The true knowledge can happen to you through intuition if you know how to open that door, open that source.
Dukkha Harana Meditation Technique
Duration: 31 minutes for 21 days
This meditation technique is called Dukkhaharana which originated in the Kulaarnava Tantra. It will bring out all the suppressed emotions in you. Many Masters have employed this technique before. It takes totally 31 minutes. Breathing is the bride to the Universe. It is the system with which you are living your mind. If your thinking is calm your breath will be relaxed. If your thinking is aggressive, your breathing will also be aggressive. You first need to control your breathing in order to control your mind. In the first part of this meditation deep breathing is carried out in order to creae a churning in your repressed system. Your mental system is made fully alive by the increased intake of oxygen, it become more vital. Your cells will get most energy and will create more bioelectricity or bio-energy. This energy will melt all the repressed emotions like melting ice. It is like fanning the Muladhara chakra.
This technique may be practiced on an empty stomach, preferably in the morning. 21 days of Dukkhaharana will transform your Being and bring a glow to your face and body. This is like taking a psychological bath. You will be able to experience the Silence in you. When you kill dukkha or sorrow, Ananda or Bliss flowers in you and sends forth a beautiful fragrance from you.
First step:
Stand with your eyes closed.
Second step
Breathe deeply and rhythmically from the depths of your body, always through your nose with your mouth closed. Move your hands, flex your knees and bend to a semi-squatting position and then rise up. Move as if you are a bird in flight up and down, knees moving up and down, arms moving up and down all rhythms in line with your breathing. Do the movements gently and synchronize your inhalation with upward movement and exhalation with downwards movement. If you have a heart problem, do only as much as you can. Similarly, pregnant women and others with physical ailments – should consult their doctor before doing and limit the movements to only as much as they can. Do this for 10 minutes.
Third step
For the next 10 minutes, keep your eyes closed and tense each part of your body, part by part, limb by limb, then let it relax. Tense and relax one limb and then move to the next. Start with your feet, move to legs then move to thigh, next to the hips, then to the stomach and lower back, then to the chest and upper back, then to your arms from finger tips to shoulder, next to the neck and shoulders, next to your face and finally to the top of the head. Relax each part of your entire body before you move to the next part. This is like an isometric exercise with each part of your body. At the end of these 10 minutes, you will become vacant inside, you will become cool, calm and composed.
For the next 10 minutes, sit down keeping your eyes closed and chant the 'hoo' kara sound, just the word 'hoo'. There is no need to chant it deeply and loudly. Just chant it in a normal voice. As you chant, simply witness whatever happens inside or outside your Being.
The first two part of this technique are actually a preparation for this third part that is the actual meditation. When you come to the third part you will see that the mind becomes silent effortlessly, by itself. Silence cannot be forced upon you, it can only happen by itself. Remain in this relaxed state with a smiling face and blissful mood. During this time, there may be many experiences, just watch them as you would watch the television. Watch your mind thought by thought. Don't focus on the muladhara at any time during the meditation as this will create fantasies which you are trying to remove. After 10 minutes of 'hoo' kara, sit silently for about a minute and open your eyes. Carry this energy and silence with you.
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