It’s so simple. The secret to meditation is staring. Don’t imagine anything, don’t empty your mind, don’t focus on your breath, you don’t have to do those things. I mean, you can do those things, if they work, great, you go; there are many methods and I don’t have any formal training in meditation, I am totally self taught to myself by myself for myself; but staring is an easy way into the game if you are having trouble.

Simply close your eyes in whatever comfortable position for meditation sitting you choose, I got the zafu zabuton combo and I do the lotus cause I’m sly like that, but sitting in a chair is fine. I think it’s pretty important to get it good and dark, because you are about to watch a movie and you need the lights turned off to get a good bright picture.

Once your eyes are closed, you can still use them to see things! I am not talking about imagination or visualization. Look at your eyelids. Use your actual eyes. Stare into your eyelids. Watch what you see. This will stop you from from imagining a bunch of random stuff (the initiate’s problem in meditation – immediately obvious and massively overpowering if you’ve ever tried it even once) and get you really connected to the present moment. Now since you are literally watching the movie inside your eyelids you don’t have to divide your consciousness and inadvertently imagine a billion things and thus cannon launch into frustrating monkey mind games.

What you should see is various patterns of blackness, specks, spots, points of light, possible geometric patterns, swirls and so on. This is the first stage to clear controlled focus. If you keep it going gear shifts start happening in your mind and your visual field. Eventually you can get to hypnagogic states just from this but that’s a different lesson son gun.

Happy sequels.

Eye Movie Aaron

6/27/2017