SWIMfriend wrote:Anyone heard of the Zen master named Bassui? His one and only method was to ask himself "WHO?" However deep he got, and whatever mystical experience he had, he would continue to ask himself WHO is having the experience. The idea being to go deeper and deeper into the source of his own reality.
Seems like it could be enlightening to try during profound experiences (experiences which I can't claim--I've yet to get started on spice travels....but this thread and others like it make my eyes widen and my mouth water
I have enormous respect for all of you reporting these profound travels...
I have a method that works for me. I use shrooms as DMT is simply to quick to learn much.
I start of by eating 2-4 grams and then I sit in the half lotus posture and begin diaphragm breathing. Once my breath has slowed to about 2 breaths per minutes I begin visualizing my spinal collum as a hollow tube. When I inhale I visualize light moving from the base chakra to the crown chakra. When I exhale I visualize the light going down the tube. A few minutes into this and the visualizations become very real as the shrooms kick in.
Once past the peak of the trip and in deep meditation I then simply ask "Who am I".
The first time I did this the visions came to a crawl and I was presented with a large temple looking door. I could sense that the other side of the door was a very powerful force....
I asked again. "What am I?" The visions turned to dark and there was nothing.
"What am I?" The darkness turned to light..
in awe I asked again with complete resolve. What am I.
What happened next is a pinnacle life experience. The light engulfed me. I immediately became infinitely small and infinitely large. I was the alpha and the omega. The part of me that I normal identify with was gone. I was pure awareness...not really thought, but not non-thought either. I simple was. I wouldn't even call the light white anymore. Honestly the Buddhist term 'clear light' which means pure mind is a better description...I guess!
When I came out of this state the first time I had been there for over an hour. The peace and tranquility I had was second to none...it lasted day's.
The next night as I drifted off to sleep I briefly saw the flash of intense white light. It was only seconds this time though.
The goal is to learn to access this state with smaller and smaller doses. The light is inside of everyone. I don't have a good explanation of it. My inner scientist will tell you it's just neurochemistry. My spiritual side will say it's pure energy....and that's all there really is.
If your religion, faith, devotion, or self proclaimed spirituality is not directly leading to an increase in kindness, empathy, compassion and tolerance for others then you have been misled.