Zazen Notes

Here’s a  question that was directed to me from someone on “The Dao Bums” forum site, and my reply:

Do you know any reason why I am getting a headache after meditation? I can’t sleep well if I meditate more than 20 minutes.

I have no experience with either of those symptoms.

Something I wrote might apply:

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In a previous post, I quoted the twentieth-century Indian sage Nisargadatta:

Meditation means you have to hold consciousness by itself.

(Gaitonde, Mohan [2017]. Self – Love: The Original Dream [Shri Nisargadatta Maharaj’s Direct Pointers to Reality])

In that post, I used Nisargadatta’s description of meditation to make sense of two lines ...  read more

On The Dao Bums forum site, someone wrote:

 First jhana is concentration on the sensation of piti. There is still thought. I don’t think it is possible that thought and one-pointedness co-exist.

Gautama equated “right concentration” with “one-pointedness of mind”:

And what… is the (noble) right concentration ...  read more