Zazen Notes

A teacher of neigong said:

For the neigong we do, brain activity approaches zero and yes, we can do that almost instantly and I have proven this in a sleep lab, but natural awareness increases.

Milton Erickson also described an increase of awareness in trance:

I go into trances so that I will be more sensitive to the intonations ...  read more

Gautama mentions extending the mind of compassion in the ten directions to infinity, and says the perfection of such an extension is the realm of infinite ether (the first arupa jhana, or immaterial trance).

Lately I’m on a lot about proprioception in equalibrioception– “with no part of the body left out”, a singularity ...  read more

This morning I realized that for me, my study of anatomy is the study of how to relax as awareness takes place.

Sometimes I’m aware of the obturators side to side, hammocking hips from the pelvis; sometimes of piriformis and gluteous, rotating sacrum and pelvis independently; and sometimes of the sides of the PC and rectus, balancing a feeling ...  read more