What Sensations Can Arise From Deep Meditation?

When I meditate,

I feel subtle sensations throughout my body.

I especially feel that I am breathing through the top of my head,

Bek Hue.

I assume that this is a part of the subtle sensations that we feel when we focus on breathing.

What are some of the other sensations that may occur when one meditates deeply and becomes very sensitive?

When I meditate,

I feel subtle sensations throughout my body.

I especially feel that I am breathing through the top of my head,

Bek Hue.

I assume that this is a part of the subtle sensations that we feel when we focus on breathing.

I especially feel that I am breathing through the top of my head,

Bek Hue.

To feel as if you're breathing through your Bek Hue,

Which is the top of your head,

The crown of your head,

It's not real.

It's actually an illusory sensation.

Because we don't actually breathe through the top of our heads.

It's just that you're thinking that you're doing so.

We call this illusions,

Illusory sensations.

We have six sensations,

Six senses.

One is vision,

Sight.

Second is auditory,

Hearing.

Third is olfactory,

Or smell.

Fourth is taste.

Fifth is a sense of touch.

And the sixth is the cognition,

Basically kind of comprehensive processing of all the senses.

So there are five senses that have to do with the physical.

When we close our eyes and we still feel the sensation of breathing,

That's through the sensation,

A sense of touch.

We are tactically feeling the passage of the breath of the wind,

Air through our nose and into our lungs.

We also feel the diaphragm moving up and down and kind of pushing our stomach,

Our belly outside and in.

We also feel our chest cavity expanding as we breathe in and contracting as we breathe out.

And we also feel the sensation around our nostrils as the air moves in and out.

Breath is not something you can see with your eyes.

It's not something that you can hear really.

There's no smell to it.

And there's no taste.

So it is a sense of touch.

You actually recognize the breath through the sense of touch.

So when we meditate sitting down in stillness,

We can feel the movements of the air.

Since we're not moving,

We're sitting still.

After five or ten minutes of sitting still,

Our body,

Since it's not moving around exercising,

Requires less oxygen.

So the frequency of our breath decreases as well as the force of the breath.

Therefore,

The sensation that we feel,

The feeling of the breath touching us,

That sensation becomes weaker because the breath itself becomes less frequent and weaker.

So if you don't keep your focus,

At this point you're going to lose that focus,

That sensation of the breath.

So in order to keep the awareness on that subtle breath,

You have to really focus.

So to sustain your awareness on this really subtle,

Nuanced breath means that you are being very sensitive to slight changes to the sense of touch.

So throughout our body,

We have these tactile sensations that are kind of on the lookout for these subtle changes.

In usual and daily occurrence,

We're not aware of these.

For example,

We don't become aware of small noises or very quiet noises.

However,

In the middle of the night,

When everything is still and you are keen on your hearing,

Then you can even pick up the soft sounds of an insect.

Similarly,

If you really train yourself to become aware of the subtle breath,

Then you start becoming aware of other subtle sensations throughout your body.

And if you shift your attention to your hands,

You can feel that subtle sensation in your hands.

If you shift your attention to the crown of your head,

You can feel that same sensation on the top of your head.

If you shift your attention to the tip of your feet,

You can feel the same at the tip of your feet.

So wherever on your body you shift your attention to,

You can kind of feel that subtle sensation.

So this sensation becomes aware at your utmost level of focus in a totally peaceful and calm environment.

At this state,

When you breathe in and out,

Your breath in is going to feel cooler.

And as you breathe out,

That breath is going to become a little warmer.

And sometimes you become so sensitive that you can actually feel your nose hair moving as the air moves in and out of your nostrils.

Sometimes you feel the heat emanating from the tip of your fingers.

And sometimes you feel as if there's an electricity kind of running through your body.

For example,

Pain,

Sense of physical pain or itches,

These are strong sensations.

So you don't have to be acutely aware to become aware of these sensations.

But the examples I just brought about are those sensations that you can feel when your mind is at total peace and your level of focus is really in a heightened state.

So at this point,

If you actually bring forth your own desire to feel this sensation,

That actually might lead to an illusory sensation.

That's why you cannot intend to feel this sensation.

This sensation will you feel naturally if you just shift your attention.

So your mind cannot be excited.

Your mind needs to be at total peace.

And then that's going to lead to a really heightened state of sensation.

And you can feel this really subtle sensation at the tip of your nose and the fact that you're alive.

Infrequently,

You might feel a really subtle sensation of pain in those places that you never actually felt those before.

And if you go to a doctor afterwards,

You may find sometimes that there is an injury at that area that you haven't been aware before.

So I think I can say a deep meditative state is really a very,

Very sensitive state.

But your mind is not tense or excited,

But it's at this calm,

Peaceful state.

So whatever sensation you feel in that state,

You're not trying to classify it.

You're just feeling and accepting sensation as they are.

And if you manage to achieve or arrive at this state of meditation,

Then even in your everyday life,

In your encounters with other people,

No matter what the other people acts or says or behaves,

You'll be able to sense the subtle movement of your mind.

And if a sense of displeasure kind of starts occurring within yourself in reaction to what other people say,

Then you feel a difference in the nature of your breath.

And if you're able to grab and become aware of this micro-sensation before they become bigger,

You're able to kind of extinguish them before they grow.

So you're not trying to control your mind or emotions after the fact.

You're actually catching it before it actually manifests itself.

And you're able to maintain your calm and equanimity because of it.

To summarize,

Pause all state of mind and body.

Then you'll feel your breath.

As time goes,

Your breath will become much more subtler and you'll be able to feel that.

Then you may be able to feel all this subtle sensation throughout your body.

Then you can also become aware of the subtle sensation of your displeasure or pleasure.

Then if you're able to catch that at its nascent stages before it really becomes a value judgment of emotions,

You can catch that at that level.

And then you are able to practice how you can maintain the sense of equanimity in your everyday encounters.

And that's the reason why we're actually meditating.

Let's pause there.