There were the usual absorption factors like piti and sukha, then a strong experience of consciousness expanding - a bit like coming out of a dark tunnel into bright open space. I think having eyes open made it a different experience, but it's hard to be specific.johnny wrote:awesome! could you describe please?porpoise wrote:I managed it on an intensive meditation retreat last year. But not since!johnny wrote:can you enter jhana with them open? i'm very curious about this.
eyes open during meditation?
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cool thank you.porpoise wrote:
There were the usual absorption factors like piti and sukha, then a strong experience of consciousness expanding - a bit like coming out of a dark tunnel into bright open space. I think having eyes open made it a different experience, but it's hard to be specific.
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five