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Ok, yes it might be as simple as that. 🙂 Thanks Frederic!

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Hi Elea,
I am not sure if this is relevant, but I can answer about the checking in technique 🙂
I think you have a correct understanding of the “checking in technique”, that it is your attention that does it. But that it will cultivate more introspective awareness which is a function of peripheral awareness.

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Hi,
I am doing a casual home retreat now — So thanks for all the ideas.

This article shares some I think good ideas to think about when organizing a home retreat.

http://deconstructingyourself.com/planning-your-own-meditation-home-retreat.html

How did the retreat go? 🙂 If you are done?

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Had not heard of Ross before. I would really have needed TMI if in prison, hope it helps him.
I appreciate that people teach people in prison.
Thanks for sharing.

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Hi dear Ivan,
Maybe you allready know the teaching retreats? 🙂
Anyhow, Culadasa has written some complimentary texts to his teaching retreats which are recorded and available eg at soundcloud.
Two of them are:

The magic of mindfulness and Awakening in daily life.
The hand outs could be useful, apart from the insightful and rich speeches.
For me have they been a gem for understanding the practice.

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Hi Chris,
I saw your post now. If I may ask as well? 🙂
My legs need like five minutes to adjust and walk normal when I persist in pain. Do you think that is to long or okay?

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Hi dear Peter,
I give my thoughts—on some of the aspects of your question.

Culadasa encourages to use the pain wisely in your practice as a way to increase mindfulness. He uses the same quote as you above about optionality of suffering. And probably for other reasons.

And for me is it helpful, so I answer yes to your question 🙂

I am at stage four-five and have not had any purifications of past traumas nor strokes of genius ( I think).
But I have worked quite a lot with pain according to TMI, my experiences have been sometimes:
The pain subsiding after a while.
Sometimes Effortless increased states of concentration for maybe 10 seconds where the unpleasantness goes away – like a switch is pulled.
Pain bothers me less and less.

A trick I have used is:
If I have a shorter period to meditate like 15min do I sit in full lotus. Then the first maybe 5 minutes is all occupied with sensing the pain and trying to stay equanimous. It feels like a cacaphony. the rest part does the sensations of pain fade some and I have more concentration. I do this when I feel my mind is scattered and I convince myself to feel some pain.

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Hi dear Gleb,
I do not make a verbal noting of the sensation in the nose, just sort of feel them. And I do not characterize them with some verbal description. This rapid verbal noting would make it more of a Mahasai style noting where you dont get deep juicy concentration as I have understood it. I have not tried.

Try to feel feel the sensations in 3D shapes. Small areas (as small as possible) big areas, investigate areas you dont normally investigate. Try to be more precise. (Inspired by The mindful geek book but I think there is the same idea in the section of four elements in stage five)
Feel how they move, or change — this would be the inner wind aka the wind element aka prana.
Feeling more increases this sensory ”muscle” — sensory clarity in the mindful geek. It increases mindfulness according to TMI.

Maybe above is correct, some partial answers 🙂 .
I am alsointerested in the 12 qualities I have not heard of those.

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Hi, I give a try. Remember that the model is there for usefulness — truth is not relevant.

Dulness is defined as a lot of non perceiving mind moments. Ppg 164-165. This is not the same as unconscious moments of consciousness, which dont exist in the book – Its an oxymoron right? 🙂 I think this mix up of definitions has created problems for you. Am I correct?. So you are correct that one cannot know unconscious actions or processes— they are in the dark.
But I have noticed stuffs I do on autopilot so some stuffs can be corrected with mindfulness or mindfulness with clear comphrehension.

As I understand it ( have not experienced it yet) There are a lot of subconscious processing — some of it might surface to consciousness . There the sub minds can hang out, share information; interact and together vote (those that where invited at least) for a certain action pp191-192.

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Thanks Colleen!
I now like the pictures in TMI even more. I liked reading about the meanings of the poster.
It looks good. Will see if I get one.

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I will do that meditation again 🙂
and think:
“Another way to thing of it is that your breath will be the center of your attention and everything else will be in the background. If something else moves to the foreground, then that means your attention alternated, and you just gently move it back to the sensations caused by breathing while letting everything else be in the background. ”

I have been thinking that I am on my way to stage 4 for half a year now. But recently sensing more joy in practice and also periods (30 sec maybe) of more effortless attention.

I will try the above stuff. Thanks.

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