Now we know what we're doing and why we're doing it.
Let's start to apply this.
Let's bring all of our awareness.
Let's focus all of our awareness into the area we're meditating.
It doesn't matter whether it's the larger triangle,
The smaller triangle,
The circle,
Or the tiny points.
Simply focus.
Focus your awareness on your chosen area.
Feel the breath in this area.
Allow your mind to boom collected and sharp.
To become focused,
Non-reactive,
And stable.
And then when your mind is sharp enough and it can start to feel other sensations,
Then switch your awareness over to sensation.
Remembering that sensation is everything you feel,
Anything you feel on the bodily level,
As long as it's within the area that we're focusing.
Maybe you feel some itching on your nose.
Maybe some tingling.
Maybe some heat.
Maybe pressure.
Maybe you feel the breeze.
Maybe the cold.
Maybe pulsing.
Maybe vibration.
Whatever it is that you feel,
It doesn't matter.
We deal with it the same way.
We simply focus our awareness on the sensation,
Feel it completely without reacting.
And as we feel a sensation now,
We have a new skill to add.
We don't simply feel an area and feel a sensation within it.
We feel a sensation and we focus our entire mind on it.
We slowly focus so intensely on a sensation that all of our awareness sits within the sensation.
When you feel a sensation,
Feel the quality of it.
Feel the size of it.
The shape of it.
Is it fixed or is it fluid?
Feel the edges of it.
Feel the center of it.
Feel everything within it.
And if you start to feel other sensations within this sensation,
Smaller,
More subtle sensations,
Then simply do the same thing.
Take your awareness and focus it,
All of it,
Entirely on one of these other smaller,
More subtle sensations.
Go through the same process.
Feel the quality of the sensation.
The size of it.
The shape of it.
Is it fixed or fluid?
Feel the edges of it.
Feel the center.
Continue this process,
Going deeper and deeper into the self.
In this way,
We can train all the skills together,
Continuing to sharpen our mind without going back to the breath.
Using sensation as sensation to go deeper and deeper into meditation.
If we find ourselves reacting,
Tense or distracted,
Then simply use the skill that we learned on day one.
Bring our mind back to the sensation,
Back to feeling and not reacting.
Becoming aware,
Accepting everything,
And eventually appreciating everything as we feel all sensation as sensation.
Let's focus on this now.
Building our clarity,
Our awareness,
Our stability.
All at the same time.
Continue to practice.
And when you feel like changing posture and sitting a little bit more deeply to push your boundaries,
Then do that as well.
But not to the point where you burn yourself out.
Do it knowing that you can always change.
Knowing that this is a controlled environment guided by you.
Designed to help you go deeper into meditation.
Deeper and deeper.
Whatever happens around us is no longer the defining factor of our lives.
It's how we choose to respond to it.
So let's continue to build this skill.
To feel everything.
And react to nothing.
Just breathe.
There we go.
We're going to meet again soon.
Now as we come to the end of the day and the end of this session,
We have options.
When we change posture,
When we go to bed,
Continue to carry your awareness with you.
Whether this is awareness of the breath or awareness of sensation depends upon your own meditation,
Depends upon your own level of focus and clarity.
Whatever you're working with,
Remember the principle.
Allow reality to be exactly as it is.
Feel it completely and react to nothing.
Do not suppress,
Do not restrict,
Do not control.
Simply feel and don't react.
This skill will help us in carrying sensation unbroken,
Awareness of sensation unbroken through our day will help to build our focus and our clarity.
And we'll use this tomorrow as we start to explore the self,
Explore deeper into the body and go deeper into meditation.
Continue to practice.
Keep your awareness unbroken.
