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I wrote in a recent correspondence:<\/p>\nI wrote in a recent correspondence:<\/p>\n
My practice is getting more interesting.\u00a0 I think I mentioned that I took up meditation in the first place because I was unhappy with my mind\u2014I didn\u2019t seem to be able to avoid a tendency to carry on thinking, past when the thoughts were fresh.\u00a0 Now I see that I can turn my attention to my location, to that singularity in the location of awareness that acts in the movement of breath without the exercise of will, and from there find relaxation and calm until the thoughts come fresh again.<\/p>\n
The weird thing is, friends now mention to me that they experience some of the same dissatisfaction with their minds.<\/p>\n
I feel at a total loss to help these friends, who don\u2019t sit.\u00a0 Just thinking doesn\u2019t touch it, so even my best explanation is not likely to be helpful, but maybe I can be a better example of my own medicine.<\/p>\n
A friend sent me the last part of this:<\/p>\n
Normally consciousness relies on all the bodily elements as its basis. During the death process, however, the elements as bases progressively fail and consciousness relies on less and less of them. This is what experiences the Clear Light of death and passes into the in-between or “bardo” state and on into your next rebirth. Thus meditation on the mind with no object is similar to the tantric ones of taking the Dharmakaya as a pathway for death, in which you simulate in meditation the dissolution process of death and focus finally on the space-like mind itself in the Dharmakaya Clear Light experience.<\/p>\n
Meditation on no object should not be confused with blank-mindedness in which you are completely dull as if in a stupor or a faint. It is extremely alert, mindful and clear, but as in the Clear Light death meditations, without any object or thoughts. (1)<\/p>\n
In the dissolution process of the bodily elements as outlined previously, consciousness progressively relies on less elements [dissolution of the elements and three subsequent stages of creative energies are described].\u00a0 After this comes the Clear Light Dharmakaya experience which can be had at death, falling asleep, fainting or in advanced tantric meditations. (2)<\/p>\n
The Clear Light Dharmakaya experience, which can be had at falling asleep.\u00a0 My friend sent this to me because he remembered I had written something about falling asleep.<\/p>\n