Nondual guided meditation by Michael Taft
Shamatha (i.e. calming and focusing) and Vipashyana (particular perception) are two completely different practices that can be utilized together to extend the effectiveness of each. In shamatha observe we’re staying with a relaxed and targeted thoughts. Nonetheless, that is typically interrupted by intrusive ideas, feelings, and so forth. With the intention to assist ourselves to go deeper, we will then swap to vipasyana on no matter content material was interrupting the shamatha.
Let’s take intrusive ideas, for instance. We swap to vipashyana, taking the pondering as its object. That’s, we do vipashyana on the pondering, noticing its vacancy. That is the “particular perception” that we entry in vipashyana: to see the vacancy of some obvious object. As soon as the vacancy of the ideas is evident, we will then swap again to doing shamatha, and the ideas will now be a lot much less of an issue. We will do that for any materials that’s inflicting unsteadiness in our shamatha. Thus vipashyana helps shamatha.
How does shamatha assist vipashyana? As our thoughts turns into calm and regular, it will increase the perception capability of the vipashyana apace. The extra readability and stability we’ve within the shamatha, the extra penetrating and highly effective the vipashyana turns into.
The productive interaction between these two methods suggests a construction of observe during which we shuttle between doing shamatha for some time, then vipashyana for some time, then again to shamatha once more. Again and again. With every spherical of this back-and-forth, the depth of the shamatha will increase as does the facility of the vipashyana. We will consider this as type of refinement course of, which might leads us into the depths of true vacancy and awakening.
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notice: I (Michael Taft) took this picture of a peacock I noticed in a park in Vallejo, Ca.
