On retreat, at first I focused on breath sensations in the nostrils. After about a week these sensations became hard to find / focus on, so I switched to internal sounds / vibrations at the tip of the nose / energy on the upper lip (below the nose). I don’t remember the exact combination of focus points / objects.

When I followed the…[Read more]

I hear a continous high pitched sound in my left ear. In my right ear, there is a faint morse-like sound that turns into high pitched frequency when I listen to it. On my recent Mahasi retreat I used these sounds with good results – I even got few seconds of jhana with internal sound as the object. Problem is, I don’t remember what was my…[Read more]

4.30 awaken
5.00 walk
6.00 sit
7.00 breakfast
7.30 walk
8.00 sit
9.00 walk
10.00 sit
11.00 walk
12.00 lunch, shower, rest, sit, etc
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