I'm understanding meditation is to be awake to the inhaling,
Exhaling via the tip of my nose.
But sometimes when I meditate,
I inhale through my nose,
But I don't breathe out through my nose.
So I'm understanding meditation is to be awake to the inhaling,
Exhaling not through my nose,
But exhale through my mouth.
Awakening means that I am awake to the breath of inhaling,
Exhaling.
Is it okay if I am awake to the inhaling via the tip of my nose,
Exhaling via my lips?
Is this a wrong way?
It's not to be awake to a specific emotion,
But to be awake to the current state as is.
So to be awake to the breath,
It's not the smell or the sound or anything else of the breath.
It's a sensation of the breath that you are being awake to.
So remember when sometimes you want to check whether a person is alive or dead,
As the person is lying down,
Sometimes you put your finger up to the tip of your nose to see if you can feel the breath.
And it's the sensation of the touch of the air moving over your fingers that lets you know whether the person is alive or dead.
That's because we have a very sensitive sense of touch at the tip of our fingers.
And of course,
You could do the same thing to feel the breath through your nostrils if you place your finger nearby.
But you don't necessarily have to do that because there are other sensations to realize that you yourself are breathing if it's your own breath.
So sense the stars.
So another way to be recognizing of your breath is to focus on your belly and feel the rising and the pressing of the belly as you breathe.
Second way to be awake to your breath is sense the breath through your respiratory organs all the way from your nose through the respiratory tracts into your body.
And the easiest way to be awake to your breath,
To feel that sensation,
Is to feel the breath through your nose as it moves to your respiratory tracts into your lungs.
But if our ultimate objective is to be awake to the motion of the breath,
The movement of your belly as you breathe,
But be mindful of the breath itself is not our ultimate destination.
That's the beginning,
That's where we start.
But our destination and objective is to expand the sensations and the awareness.
So what I'm saying is that being mindful of the breath as it moves in and out of your nose is the most useful way to start this journey.
That's why it's a preferred method to start feigning,
To start introducing to meditation by focusing on the breath through the nose.
And if in the midst of practicing,
If your breath naturally comes in through the nose and leaves through your mouth,
All you have to do is just be aware that's happening.
As long as you don't hold the intent that you have to breathe out through your mouth.
And if you actually are aware that the breath is leaving you through the mouth,
You can just close your mouth.
Then naturally the breath will leave you through your nose.
And it's a natural way for your breath to come in through your nose and leave through your nose.
And recognize the breath is long or short or rough or calm.
It's not the how of you breathe.
It's being mindful to the fact that you're breathing in this way.
And as time goes,
Your body and mind will be relaxed.
The breath accordingly will also be peaceful.
And at that point,
Actually it's easy to lose focus on the breath.
And random thoughts will distract you.
So it requires even more concentration and focus.
Until you focus so that you sense you're awake to even the minutest sensation of the breath.
At that state of concentration,
You'll be able to sense all the subtle sensations that are occurring in your body.
And you'll be able to feel the subtle sensations of the breath.
And you'll be able to feel the subtle sensations of the breath and you'll be able to sense all the subtle sensations that are occurring in every corner of your body.
And you'll feel alive with the sensation that every single cell of your body is alive as well.
At that point,
You'll be very hypersensitive to all the subtle sensations throughout your body.
And you'll sense even a slight shift in your mind or emotion will affect the sensations.
And you'll see how your mind reacts to those sensations and your mind reacts with this light or light to the subtle sensation it feels.
And you'll see how your mind reacts to those sensations and your mind reacts with this light or light to the subtle sensation it feels.
So in this state of calm and hypersensitivity,
You'll realize,
You'll witness the interactions among your sensation,
Your mind,
Your feelings,
Your emotions,
How they affect each other.
In that sense,
Later on,
You don't have to be sitting down to experience this.
You'll be able to maintain this mindfulness as you move around.
And as you talk to somebody else,
As you engage in some labor,
Your mindfulness will stay and allow you to sense these interactions among the various attributes of your body.
And in that state,
You are mindful to the actual generation of certain emotions or certain sensations that you can see and allow it to dissipate.
Whether instead of suppressing or suppressing,
Once they have ballooned.
But since at this point,
We can't maintain that mindfulness even while sitting down in the quiet,
That's what we have to practice.
