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Question for December 1, 2013: Meditative Awareness
Medivate — 13 years ago — in Question of the Week
Medivate — 13 years ago — in Question of the Week
Is there a specific quality to your awareness when meditating? How would you characterize it? Energetic? Neutral? Something else?
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davidbhayes — 13 years ago — permalinkI don't know that I can really generalize about my meditative awareness, because it seems to me to be so many thing. For more than a week I've had this question in the back of my head, and every time I think I have an answer I realize it's only a temporary answer reflecting the most recent session.
I have sessions that feel quite jumpy, attention flitting from thing to thing. I have sessions where that basic dynamic being at work feels really grating and there's an agitated quality to the awareness as a result. In other "flitty" session there's a calm sense around the flitty-ness, a sort of patient and encompassing quality. Sometimes my mind on a whole seems pretty calm, and there's a strong but pleasant neutral sense to it all.