So let's continue to go deeper as we settle into our mats.
Let's re-intensify our focus.
By now,
We should have our awareness placed on our breath the whole time.
But every time we come back to the mats to practice,
We should do our best to intensify the focus as much as possible.
To magnetize our awareness away from everything else and towards our breath.
Then find the right area for your awareness.
How sharp is your mind right now?
See where your mind wants to sit.
In the larger triangle,
The smaller triangle,
The circle or the point.
And just let your awareness sit there for a minute and feel the breath coming in and out of the nostrils,
Pulling all of our awareness back to one place.
Okay.
And when we've collected our awareness,
Slowly switch our mind over to start feeling any sensation in the area that we're focusing.
We're no longer limited to focusing on the breath.
Anything happening within the larger triangle,
The smaller triangle,
The circle or your area of chosen focus is now within the field of our meditation.
Any sensation.
And what do we mean by sensation?
We simply mean anything that you can feel.
Anything you feel in this area becomes an object of meditation.
The breeze,
Heat,
Cold,
Vibration,
Tingling,
Pressure,
Itching,
Pulsation.
Anything that you feel.
And our job is simple,
To feel and not react.
Just as when we were meditating on the breath,
Our mind might slip off these sensations and still be at effect to this gravitational pull of our complexes,
Of our mental formations that we were discussing.
This isn't a problem.
As soon as we become aware that our mind has moved,
Simply move it back.
Feel a sensation and fixate on it.
Feel it as fully and completely as you can.
What's the quality of the sensation?
What size is it?
What shape is it?
Is it fixed or does it change?
Simply feel the sensation and become as completely aware of it as you can.
If you notice you have any mental reactivity to it,
Any tension or associations manifest themselves,
Simply let them come and go.
Like the clouds passing through the sky.
The sun is always shining,
Whether the clouds are passing or not.
And our awareness should always be fixated on the sensations,
Whether there are distractions arising or not.
Keep this pure,
Clear,
Stable focus.
If at any point you feel you get lost in sensation or your awareness gets muddied,
Then simply bring your mind back to the breath.
Continue to sharpen your awareness.
And then when you're ready,
Go back to sensation.
This is how we continue to go deeper into awareness.
Feeling sensation fully,
Being as aware as possible,
Being equanimous,
Non-reactive to sensation.
And then sharpening the mind when necessary.
Going back to the breath so that we can feel more deeply.
Continue to practice this.
And let's see how deep we can go into our sensory awareness.
Please keep your breath island.
Good.
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