Category: samadhi
Perception
The state of perceiving is more important than what is perceived. Paraphrase of Krishnamurti
Introspection|Extrospection
Recollect your self and your other in samadhi.
Recollection
Constant self-remembering (smṛti, स्मृति) leads to samadhi (समाधि).
Maturity II
How to be a wise child: [R]eturn to that naked awareness, that vision unclouded by commentary, which we enjoyed as babies in the days when we saw no difference between knower and known, deed and happening. This time, however, we are babies reborn–babies who remember all the rules and tricks of human games and can […]
Exaltation
Pursue pleasure, the springboard to ecstasy. Compare: Bhogayoga (भोगयोग)
Memento mori II
Practice deathbed meditation thusly: “Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.” “So is all conditioned existence to be seen.” https://diamond-sutra.com/read-the-diamond-sutra-here/diamond-sutra-chapter-32/
Tonus of the bodymind
The aim and end of yoga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavasana
AP News: US overdose deaths hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says
Though medicine can cure many ills, may we achieve and teach others to achieve blissful states of consciousness without drugs. https://apnews.com/article/overdose-deaths-opioids-fentanyl-8cb302a70ddbb6a435f9e8fbb19f153b
Nine Spice Mix by Zeina Azzam – Poems | Academy of American Poets
The mystical experience of the Beatific Gustation. https://poets.org/poem/nine-spice-mix?mc_cid=7ffe92be63&mc_eid=d4e0008b99