How To Access The Still Point

I introduce my fiancée Randi Green's teachings and instructions about the Still Point for meditation and energy work. This recording includes silence, stillness, calm, quiet, cessation, gaps between thoughts, how to better see rising/ceasing, the receiving and perceiving of energy, working with pleasant/unpleasant, how to work with body challenges including right relationship and kindness as preliminaries; vertical sitting position; central nervous system; mental > mind > radiation fields; balancing the emotional system; neither going too far in nor out; contents of the mental fields; identifying what we want to connect to, work with and clear; working with various layers and levels of golden energy around the head and the golden center; receiving and working with other levels of energy from our existence and the exercise of observing the center of the brain for the still point.

Please note: This track was recorded live and may contain background noises.

Transcript

Hello and greetings.

This is Josh Dupold and this,

What you're about to hear,

Is a short instructional and observational way to work with the still point from my fiancé Randy Green.

And as this is recorded near Jethers Buddhist Monastery in July of 2023,

It's quite appropriate to be doing the intro here.

And she talks much about silence and stillness,

Calm,

Quiet,

And even cessation of mental activity.

And this is my understanding of what she's talking about.

There's also a gap between thoughts where I can detect this.

And once this technique or this state practice is established,

It's easier to kind of perceive the rising and falling nature of phenomena.

This is what in the Buddhist language would be considered Samatha practice,

Calming,

Collecting,

Quieting of the mind.

She also talks about,

In Buddhist language,

It's called Vedana or I like to call hedonic tone of pleasant,

Unpleasant,

Or neither of these,

And how to work with that.

She talks about sitting up in classical cross-leg position,

But if there's a lot of stuff coming up from the body,

Wanting attention,

Then there's prerequisites she talks about working with,

Like laying down,

Forming the right relationship with the body as a preliminary to the vertical upright position.

This technique works with the central nervous system,

Going into her language of first starting off the mental field,

And then getting into the mind field,

And then more of a refinement of the radiation field.

This is after some degree of balance within the emotional system has happened,

And this technique will help also balance the emotional system.

So we're neither going too far in in the inner worlds,

Nor are we going out.

Working with what's in the mental field already,

And what do we want to connect with,

And what do we want to work and clear.

And she talks about working with various layers of the mental field,

With levels of golden energy around the head,

And also the golden center in the middle of the brain.

And then we can choose to either work with the body or not from that point,

Or just be quiet and just be in that state,

Kind of build it up,

Strengthen that state of stillness,

Quiet and calm.

Then we can start to receive and work with other levels of energy from our existence,

Ones that don't normally present themselves in everyday life,

And work with this energy flow within the brain that doesn't really require the same type of bodily energies that we use every day.

And then finally she talks about the exercise of just observing the center of the brain as the still point.

So back,

Take this in and hear her unique language and take on maybe what some people talk about,

Samatha practice or Jhana practice,

Stillness and quietness,

But also practical ways to work with this.

Enjoy.

How to access the still point in meditation and inner observation practice,

And why is it important to practice the observation of the still point in inner work prior to the more expanded awareness from where the realms will unfold their content as well as their hidden treasures.

What is the still point?

It is that point in meditation and inner work where there are no phenomena rising or falling.

There are no,

And falling here by meaning rise up,

Come into our awareness,

Our perception of the inner realms,

As well as fading away and ceasing to exist on the spectrum of energies that are fluctuating in different patterns that the brain will interpret as different types of visuals,

Different types of sounds,

As well as different types of experiences that might or might not be real,

But they are still a part of our holographic architecture.

So when we practice the still point,

We can work with different approaches where we learn to be in the still point.

One would be to create a cone of golden light that goes from above our head to the entire base of our positions as we are sitting in the upright typical lotus position.

We have our hands open with the palm open to receive energies,

And we are making ourselves into the vessel of receiving energy.

So that's the first practice to be learned is how do we receive energy and how do we perceive the energy we receive.

So the first important thing is to learn to be quiet and that's where the still point comes in.

But the still point is higher than being quiet.

What does it mean to be quiet?

Quiet means to calm all of these phenomena that rises up and takes form in our head or takes form in our physicality or takes form in our what we would call emotional sphere.

Feeling unpleasantness or feeling pleasantness,

Feeling the perhaps unease of having this posture,

Feeling uncomfortable with having our legs crossed,

We might not be flexible enough.

That's a training matter as well,

Which can be trained at other times in yoga for instance.

So the physicality must be taken care of at some other point in the practice of observation,

Which could also be called meditation,

Is where we become this meditation as a kind of mediate or meditate upon what it means to be a human in the fifth realm.

That is,

We have four levels below us and we have got a very large number above us.

So we are here in the fifth realm.

So our practice of observation will be to have that beginning understanding that now I put myself in a position where I have a horizontal access point that is calm.

That can be done either in lying down meditation or in different forms of energy work as I propose in my other material.

Here we're working with the upright vertical position and that's where we understand that when we work with the upright vertical position,

We are working with our central nervous system to learn to administer the information that will come from our work in the upright position.

So we now know that the focus in our meditation or in our practice of observation is tied to our brains and the processes around our mental field or our mind field that is composed of five different layers.

These five different layers are in alignment with the fifth realm or the human realm.

And in that way we also understand that the prior four realms beneath us in a way are connected to either our physicality or perhaps even our emotional field.

I also work with that in other places in my material.

So here we are now beginning to understand that meditation is focused on the mental field.

So that is the transformation of the mental field into becoming the five layered mind field that unfolds the five skandhas or the five layer configuration that is in alignment with what we will call the radiation energies.

In the whole transition classes I work with the vibrational field that is the horizontal level where we learn to work with the complex formations of the vibrational energies which is also and has been translated in other places into the notion and idea of empathy,

Compassion as well as learning to be neutral in our emotional field.

Meaning that when we go into the practice of observation the emotional field should be neutral.

It should be in balance with the understanding of the body and the emotional field are now relaxed.

They are in the receptive position no longer engaged in the outer phenomenon.

The outer whatever is going on around us the emotional field is not in that manner in tuned to what is going on outside of us.

It is now completely calm inside because we have worked to this point where the understanding of who and what we are is aligned with our inner and outer perception of reality.

The alignment has happened via our extensive inner work that we have done prior to this ability to enter the still point.

So the still point is there where we have our biology and our emotionality in this moment in balance and in a state of neutral acceptance and neutral receiving of what will come from the work with the five fields around our brain.

The next level of this axis that is now we kind of that's why the upright position is important.

That's where we in our meditation position are literally telling the body that we are now upright.

We are working with the horrors,

Sorry,

The vertical level.

We are working not with the body in a walking position.

That's another way to sense our body and work with our body perception,

Our body sensations.

We can do meditation when we are walking.

That's another way of working with our biology aside from exercise or yoga and similar experiences where we are working with our breath.

We are working with the sensations of the body.

We are working with the pushing of the body into new abilities where the body learns to trust us.

It learns to reconnect to us.

We are having an interaction with our physicality where we are observing it but at the same time we are also addressing it and we are helping it to progress as well as living up to its full capacities of what a body actually can do.

So that's another practice that I will not go into here.

But the still point that goes with the mental capacity is then possible because we have made ourselves,

The body is now in trust in this position.

It is waiting and it's awaiting our orders so to speak.

And the orders here sit still and breathe,

Be calm and receive energy.

The emotional field is no longer occupied with what's going on around us or what's going on inside of us or what we want or what we do not want.

We have neutralized,

To use that word,

Here as well where the emotional field is in balance.

It is what we could say fluctuating the golden energy between the bio field and the emotional field like spirals that are going up and down and up and down in a calm manner where the emotional field now knows,

Resting,

That this is not its time,

This is not where we interact in types of relationship with either reality or others.

It has no need to go outwardly and there is no need to the inner processes of wondering and feeling and sensing because in the many,

Many years of our inner work and psychological work we have also created a relationship with our emotional field and the sensations of the body and how they are interpreted as emotions and rising and cessation of these different kinds of emotional experiences in that calm understanding that this is not the time for that either.

So to get to the still point we have generated a trust and relationship with our body and our emotions are calm also knowing that they will be put in motion when the time is right but now it is not the time for all sorts of emotional reactions to whatever is going on.

The body of course can be a little bit discontent and give different and sounds and signals to put it that way to be heard if the posture is not comfortable or if it's saying well my leg is kind of beginning to sleep now because there's no blood coming to the minor vessels and by that begins to what we call sleep.

So we are having or that's what we call in Danish but here we could also say a needle and pins that we begin to feel in our body.

So there are different approaches to this.

Some will say well I will just be mind over matter and I will tell my body that it will not get what it needs right now but that's not my approach.

I am more into a more kind approach to my body if my it's typically my left leg that does that little pins and needles and then I just stretch it out and allow that to be stretched out while I still hold the upright position until my leg has got the blood it needs and then I will put it back into the correct position.

So I'm not punishing.

I call it a kind of punishing my body in my meditation because meditation should be silent observation as well as kind observation and if my body is in severe pain well then it's not really kind is it to my body because this should also be approached with kindness.

So that's the first basic step and there are many different ways of practice the inner observation where it leads to the still point.

These are some of the ways that I have discovered that works best for me and that is to go in and have this already existing connection with my physicality as well as my emotional field and by that I am in that trust trusting environment for the meditation practice which lets it or makes it very much easy for my mind to be the one that is now in focus and that's where the still point comes in.

Now many people that begin meditation they have aside from the body that makes its own noises because that technically we could say many people that start the meditation practice they are not in very good contact with their body so when they suddenly sit and observe the body is very very eager to make itself heard.

It's like it's now saying whoa this is my time she's finally listening or he's finally listening and then it tells us all sorts of things and that's part of why it would be a good idea to do that in what we could call a horizontal meditation or lying down meditation where we put our body into a rest that with a theta state it comes into a resting position without us falling asleep and then we go in and work on a deep core level with our physicality as well as with our emotional field since these two are interconnected and by that are also learning to be in the silent observation of what the body needs to tell us and another good practice here is what I also teach in the whole academy courses is how to do self-healing learning to work with our holographic architecture our holographic energetic architecture behind the physical form and in that one that way support our body in its processes that makes the body eager to relax it does no longer need to cry for our observance and our attention because we have already done that in energy work in clearing work and in self-healing work so the body is content others go in and say it's impossible to meditate on a full stomach I will agree that's probably not the best because then all the energies of the mind are put into the processes of producing what we could call the transformational processes the metabolism of the body is focused there so it's good to be in not hungry not full but in between in again where the body has what it needs so it doesn't need to shout for shout for attention with that we are then understanding okay so there are preliminary phases before it's easy quote-unquote for us to meditate the practice of just sitting down then forcing ourselves to this observance is not my approach either but for me due to my past lives and what I've experienced prior to this existence well then I already had practiced that and that was coated into my biofuel so once I began the meditation my body was eager to say well I can do this too I can do this in this form as well because it kind of was already there so my body understood what it was but the most important part was that I had this relationship with my body otherwise the body will perhaps feel this is dangerous or something that it cannot participate in and by that will reject the attempt to meditate so these are the different practices and I suggest that the first very many times that you meditate is where you learn to connect to your body I also recommend you exercise that you do some kind of yoga you do some kind of breathing exercise some kind of observance where you use your body and create the connectedness to your body again and in that way the body will not have so be so busy in trying to get your attention it's like a little child that feels neglected and of course when you're quiet and you're looking at it it will do whatever it can to get your attention so these are the the preliminary the preliminary what we have to do before we can really go into deep contemplation contemplation is more where we work with the topic the still point is where we go in and become silent so that we can receive what is in our fields and here particularly in the mental fields what is in the five layers around our head what is it that we want to connect to in our inner meditation and what will rise up presenting itself as the first steps to be cleared out to be removed from our what we could call closer to the brain at distortion fields where we normally store all of our thought processes so that will of course be the first layer we need to clear and in meditation when we become silent and we begin to observe that of course a lot of thoughts will come a lot of we can almost hear other people talk the experiences of the day a lot of things flashed through our eyes and that just that's just the brain processes and all the distortion energy similar as we worked out through our emotional content we're now working through the mental content and also understanding that all of this is a kind of distortion it's noise literally so how can we come around that well one way would be to work with the golden energy around our head as well in five different layers if we kind of work on a spectrum of different types of golden energy that is first and foremost tied into our neural network but then can expand out into different variations of gold that are positioned in five fields around our head that would be a first good way to work with the five fields around our head another one could be to envision the golden center in the middle of our head which we then expand out into five rings around our head similarly as the sun expanding out in five different layers with five different types of energy so that could also be another way to construct what we call the five mind fields then we understand well the still point here is the axis where we are the central nervous system is part of the administration of the body that comes from the brain and in that we then begin to work with the brain as the main center of operation that we can transform into either be working with the body or to be quiet and not working with the body and that's why the still point comes in learning to go into that quietness even though of course we know that the brain can never really be completely quiet it has its instinctual layer or the automatic layer that works with all the processes of the body and of course energy will go there more or less 80 percent of the neurons in the brain are actually positioned in the little brain for all of these automatic processes so we then understand well the basic amount of cells that we have at our disposal will have to be upgraded the rest will have to be developed we will have to produce more cells we will actually have to produce more type of energy but a type of energy that that uses less energy consummation that takes less energies from the body and that's why the still point comes in that's what the point of the still point practice is to go in with that understanding that we will now begin to receive energy from other levels of our existence to create a kind of energy flow in our brain that does not demand the bodily energies but actually allows the brain to work on a completely different level of our existence so that is how i would interpret the work with the still point and the the the understanding of what is the still point well that is that is exactly the the conundrum here because how do we explain this state of calm neutrality and silence it's like sitting there and when you sit there in that silence you can observe the body of course but you choose not to you just focus in the center of your head and there is just silence silence nothing but silence no inner voice no imageries or no visual nothing is there other than just silence and that's a good practice of observation to begin with to be focused in that silence so that will be the first step of what we call the more advanced level of understanding why we meditate and why we are practicing the exercise or the unfolding of silence as well as the still point and what the point is of working with the still point