tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post2630854399892578193..comments2023-12-16T16:12:08.051-08:00Comments on Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization: Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-42328419832432943552011-06-17T03:56:52.502-07:002011-06-17T03:56:52.502-07:00Isaac, perhaps try relaxing into posture from your...Isaac, perhaps try relaxing into posture from your chair, followed by a more energized practice such as a type of kriya or kundalini yoga, maybe sing or chant a highly powered mantra, let it dwindle off in your head and then abide in awareness watching all your body-mind processes with attention.<br />ShawnAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-72959213108749629972011-06-16T07:00:16.376-07:002011-06-16T07:00:16.376-07:00"Lastly, we can go deep into meditation, fall..."Lastly, we can go deep into meditation, falling deeply, until our head gets hard as a rock, thinking stops, then it feels as if we are going to sleep. Then everything disappears including self-awareness. We are entirely unaware of our own existence or of the world. The next moment again we become the witness, and the world appears, or sometimes our body opens up and we become the entirety of the world, just oneness."<br /><br />I canot tell if im nodding off(falling asleep) or if what you describe above is happening to me. I definately lose self and world awareness. I think its partially because of my posture, I am sitting in a chair. I am unable to find a meditation posture i can do comfortably and if im not comfortable i cannot go deep. When what you describe above happens(i think), i catch my head because its falling forward and snaps my neck. I am not really sleepy, it just seems to happen. It goes like this: sitting, watching breath, relaxing the muscles, watching thought, watching thought, at some point i become the thought and it evoles in various storylines as me, then it all disappears. Like i said, not really sleepy at all, but its like being jolted awake while your falling asleep at your desk.<br /><br /><br />isaacAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com