Has anyone have any profound experiences having practiced formless meditation where one does not use a method or technique etc.
Also has anyone ever practiced meditation with seed and I mean the one promoted by Tony Crisp where he actually suggests you use a real seed or something like a pea and com[pare your growth with that of a pea… this is a simplification but if you read about it you will know what I mean.
Regards
Barry Mudra
[QUOTE=barry;75067]Has anyone have any profound experiences having practiced formless meditation where one does not use a method or technique etc.
Also has anyone ever practiced meditation with seed and I mean the one promoted by Tony Crisp where he actually suggests you use a real seed or something like a pea and com[pare your growth with that of a pea… this is a simplification but if you read about it you will know what I mean.
Regards
Barry Mudra[/QUOTE]
Yes. Formless meditation, as I take your meaning. I have read in another thread (i think) that you are dismayed by your progress. What is does your practice consist of? Be detailed.
also
A real seed? A Pea. Do you stare at it? Is it a fixed gaze (taraka)
“The Mahamudra is not, however, equally effective for all [I]yogins[/I], some of whom, after the intial period of development, experience impediment to further progress, whereupon the guru directs them to the Six [I]Yogas[/I].” The Six Yogas are not without their dangers, as such they should not be learnt from a book nor practiced without instruction from an accomplished lineage holder.
From W.Y. Evans Wentz’s [I]Tibetian Yoga and Secret Doctrines [/I]under the section titled “Yogic Commentary” on page xxxii.
My advice is to take up hatha yoga in addition to the buddhist mahamudra, for as svatmarama has written, “for those practicing any yoga, hatha yoga is like the tortise that supports the world.”