The Key of the Ocean.
THE KEY OF THE OCEAN
1) About the T.S
First of all, find a time and space where you can relax for a while and not be interrupted. You decide the length of this meditation modality, it can be five minutes as well as an hour or more.
2) About the posture
Look for the posture that is most comfortable for you, it can be half lotus, full lotus, lying down (in bed, armchair or hammock) or sitting; it is recommended that if you make half lotus or full lotus you use a zafu, cushion or a folded blanket, at the height of the perineum, the height should allow your knees to touch the ground (use a tarp or a rug, or whatever you have, under your cushion to prevent you from scraping or hurting your knees) this will allow you to have a pleasant posture (keeping your back upright is simpler as well), without a cushion or something that helps you stay stable your posture can be easily disarmed.
In Half Lotus or Full Lotus
* Back straight.
* Palms down or up resting on your knees (Mudras can also be used, like Mudra of harmony or Mudra of wisdom (most used), or resting in the Hara with the Dhyana Mudra or Mudra of the Void (widely used in Buddhist practices).
* Tongue against your palate (this helps stop the production of saliva and to cease the flow of thought).
* Head tilted a little downwards, continuing the straightness of the back (imagine momentarily that a thread from the bregma pulls our body up gently, this should jointly accommodate the posture of the back and the head).
* Looked at an angle of 25°, this leads to the entry into the state of relaxation Alpha (one of the brain waves, or altered states of consciousness typical of the psychic apparatus (which are: Gamma (30hz or more), Beta (12-30hz), Alpha (8-12hz), Theta (4-8hz), Delta (0.2-4hz)). With closed eyes keep the angle of 25 ° (even more favorable to enter Alpha and subsequently to the rest of the brain waves).
Lying down
On a bed or a couch
* Shavasana posture. I advise you to perform some Mudra, this will prevent you from falling asleep as you relax, as if it were some kind of alarm that allows you to stay on the wakefulness having entered deep states of relaxation.
* Tongue against your palate.
* Move your chin closer to your chest a little bit, this relaxes your body and accompanies the straightness of your back.
* Eyes opened or closed keeping the gaze in an angle of 25°.
On a hammock
* Eyes open or closed keeping the look with an angle of 25° in order to ease the access to Alpha (you cannot do it if you do not want to, but it works).
* Tongue against your palate.
* Get comfortable and start exercising in the psychic apparatus.
Sitting on a chair
* Sit down keeping your back and head straight.
* Palms resting on the knees or armrests.
* Eyes opened or closed with or without your gaze in an angle of 25°.
* Tongue against your palate.
3) About exercise in the psychic apparatus
* Take nine deep breaths (or as many as you want), in each inhalation you should feel like your lungs are filled with oxygen and therefore the rest of your body. Once your lungs are filled, hold your breath for a second (there's no need to count it, just let it be a continuous process). And exhale slowly, you should feel all your muscles relaxing as you exhale, to the point of feeling that your facial muscles are distended (it may happen that they subsequently become tense again, in that case, relax again and continue). Then keep breathing naturally.
* Choose a Mantra, the one you like the most, it can be a preexisting Mantra, or you can even invent it, I preferably use a preexisting one. Even though you should be aware of these Mantras as they're chanted because of their emotional, energetic, historical and therefore powerful meaning (each Mantra allows us to access a particular state of consciousness), they must be treated with all due respect. However, whether each Mantra has it's deep meaning or not, our goal is not to stay there but to get to the other side, where the Mantra cannot be found. I recommend the Mantra: Om Ah Hung Benza Guru Pema Sh (the "h" can barely be heard)idi Hung (this is the Mantra I use), with each inhalation we will try not to think, just take the Prana, and with each exhalation a part of the Mantra is chanted or thought.
Like this:
A) ( ) Om ( ) Ha ( ) Hum ( ) Benza ( ) Guru ( ) Pema ( ) Shidi ( ) Hung ( ).
Once you can identify that space where language does not exist, you should start paying more attention to that space between each syllable of Mantra, that is our goal in this part of the exercise. The Mantra is a tool in this sense, a key that serves us to get to a space inside the Psychic Apparatus, Human Nature, one in which language does not exist (and if it does, it is because it is part of our brain capacity, but it has been forgotten by a large part of the world's population, many more than those who know it).
That being said, after practicing this several times, the next step is to seek to exhale also without saying the Mantra.
Like this:
B) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ).
After having reached a good number of hours in the practice of exercise, it turns out to be increasingly easy, effortlessly, to concentrate only on breathing, since the flow of thoughts stops when we begin to meditate, the next step is to release the attention on your breath as well.
Like this:
C)
This is the goal of the exercise, to stay as long as possible in this space, when you try it, a thought is going to come over, it can be whatever it is, a memory, an imagination of the future, when this happens and you find yourself thinking again, you have to realize that you are doing it, realize that you are traveling to the past or the future, and go back to the present, it may be useful to say something like: "I'm here and now". But with realizing that you are thinking compulsively or quietly, it is enough for you to be able to return; and start the exercise at part A; after a while, try again part B, if it is interrupted, start again; part A can even be interrupted, at the beginning there is a lot of mental noise and it is difficult to recognize your thoughts, it can happen that you forget about the exercise because you let yourself be carried away by a thought, with practice you will realize it faster and faster, you will recognize the thoughts as soon as they appear, likewise you will also be able to see what is in your mind as you go by releasing each time linguistic portion that comes out, that is why the first relaxation, and the exercise of part A, to be able to recognize when there is a thought and when there isn’t.
Also when practicing the exercise there is something important to cosider, as Hume explains, there are ideas and impressions, something linguistic and something visual, as you relax with the exercise, if you close your eyes, images also begin to arrive, to be built, it is the burden of the unconscious, or they can be your own constructions during the process, you can ramble a lot with your thoughts, but in imageso stabilize this phenomenon if you wish, I advice you to choose a particular image, and just as you have to use the Mantra as an anchor to stabilize thoughts/ideas, visualization stabilizes the fortuitous imagination that emerges during exercise.
This is the whole exercise, during this process many things will be discovered, one of the most important is the unidentification of thoughts, becoming Aware of your Awareness (which is not your mind), also saves energy, decreases stress, anxiety, depression, and so on. A peace never before known is now achievable by this exercise, and to give you an example, it is like the difference between talking about swimming, and actually swimming, ("It is impossible to get wet by the word water" Alan Watts. "No one could satisfy their hunger with the portrait of a cake" Kyogen.) I can describe it, but swimming is something else, you have to get there by yourself, and there you would understand it. This information I’m giving you is a key to an impressive place, because this is only the beginning, the goal is to stay in part C of the exercise, the ideal is to practice it daily to start seeing and feeling, sometimes a week is fine too, depending on how fast you want to deepen; once you have advanced for a good period of time, it is advisable to aim to do only the B, then just part C, go reducing the number of repetitions of part A, pointing to part B, then go reducing the amount of repetitions of part B, pointing to part C.
Here you can also develop therapeutic issues to heal the mind, it is advisable to write down the things that are considered important, fear, guilt, shame, pain, lies (to oneself or others), illusions, earthly ties (correlated in that order with each of the chakras (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Hq499yEifaMsU3HO3Dyp-d8FEMdEYDJ7AvQqI3ZaRas/edit?usp=sharing) (I only have these text in Spanish)), everything we consider important to treat, and then discuss it with a professional, Psychologist; traumas can be found meditating, and thus heal them. Learning to let everything flow, that we are not distracted from the exercise, so writing it down is important, that allows us to know that later we are going to take care of it and therefore we can continue the exercise without having a mental verbiage; it is as harmful as not stopping doing physical exercise for a long time, and more if it is something that afflicts you, because your compulsiveness is going to be accompanied by an emotional charge that drags you into sadness, pain, but even when your compulsiveness of thought is about things that make you happy or praise you, make you feel proud, you also have to let go of that, wherever it comes from, it's a thought, and the exercise is about letting go of all thought, until you reach Vacuity, the nature of the mind, the Ocean, at that moment the whole brain works differently, reality is presented in ways that thoughts do not understand, and it belongs to you, but you've been repressed, we've repressed it.
If you got here, thank you very much, I hope you find this useful and that it helps you in your day to day, so that you can even realize when you are letting yourself be carried away by a thought in the activity of the day, and as well as being able to stop them and return to exercise, you can also do it in those moments of activity, since it trains concentration, while you repair something, practice a sport, cook, clean, listen to someone else, take a shower, etc; if you make any kind of art, it is very likely that you have entered these meditative states, but it is likely that you have done so unconsciously; the dance is very powerful for this, if one is not thinking about "The foot here, now this turn, I go there, half turn, foot..." it is very likely that you enter or have entered that space, with music it's the same, you can free yourself, I have even been told of cases in which they stay in that space, and when they realize it, they come out, they use words again, training that takes time, meditation is the right tool, and all the information was passed from person to person both linguistically and energetically for thousands of years.
The benefits are abundant, there is a lot of research in Universities about the production of gray matter, neuroplasticity, etc (to expand rationally, read the text "Mindfulness and neurobiology" by Vicente M. Simón, University of Valencia (which I consider very important) (LINK(I only have the text in Spanish): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G_kGUAQoL12jwAT7qdZALQFCmiYENGI/view?usp=drivesdk)). There are many results that start from this exercise, although meditation was taught millennia ago, I discovered that this modality did not exist until I developed it, I went to a temple, and they did not explain to me what had to be done, because to do anything, it turns out that you have to do something, after reading some books I understood, breathing, breathing is usually used to bring the mind and consciousness to the present, but it is not explained that during these processes, it is not thought verbally, you are experiencing the present using attention on the breath as an anchor. Now I give it to you in an exercise that will save you many pages of books, and even this exercise you will not find anywhere else (it is a technique to identify vacuity and the mental activity of the psychic apparatus with great simplicity, which makes it highly effective). As you progress through practice, more things are going to be revealed to you and more physical and psychic benefits you're going to have, but as long as you don't swim in the Ocean, you're not going to learn. And the goal, as you may have noticed, is to not pay attention to something in particular, to learn to let go of language, and then to allow breathing to happen naturally, without intervention. Now, how long will you be able to stay in step B or C without thinking about your past or your future? Do you want to discover that space that your nature keeps waiting for you to get there?.
Bonus:
* It is also an exercise to fall asleep (since the sleep cycles of 90 minutes, are oscillations that go from Beta or Gamma to Delta, and when we fall asleep, we make a downward movement that goes from Beta or Gamma to Delta, until we fall asleep (consciousness remains during the changes depending on the specific person, with practice you can be increasingly Conscious of every brain waves, but eventually we reached the Unconscious, we fell asleep. Brain wave changes can be identified through the high-pitched sound we hear in our ears, since brain waves are frequencies (Hz) in which they vibrate and therefore emit, our neurons (only when there is silence in the environment this can be appreciated). And the sound going from Beta (12-30Hz) o Gamma (30hz or more) to Alpha (8-12Hz) becomes more grave (they are quite identifiable since the frequency height changes are quite drastic), and so on, until we fall asleep.
* For Psychonauts. If despite the Set and Setting you begin to experience discomfort, remembering this excercise will stabilize your experience (and if you are not a Psychonaut DO NOT experiment with entheogens without adequate prior knowlegde. You can start studying by reading "Food of the Gods" by Terence Mckenna (https://drive.google.com/file/d/15j9tL-8kwvSC1KIH7VqmPsYVMKzre2iI/view?usp=sharing)).
* In Kantian terms this exercise is the access to the Noumenon, in Taoist terms, is the access to the Tao, in Dzogchen terms, is the access to the Rigpa, in Theravada and Mahayana Budism terms, is the access to the Shuniata, in Zen Budism terms, is the access to Satori.
* Expands Consciousness naturally.
* Blind people can see with this.
* The Ajna or sixth Chakra opens naturally after having accumulated practice time, it varies from person to person, and you will notice it when it happens, but concentrate on the exercise.
* Each of the Chakras can be opened concentrating on the specific points once stability is reached in step B or C, you will identify the particular sensation that each Chakra has as they open.
* And remember, "The truth is not the word truth". ~ Alejo Nahuel Nedela. And "Wisdom has no letters, but letters are wisdom" . ~ Buddah.
If you have any inquiries, you can message me through Gmail (alejonedela98@gmail.com).
Have a nice day. 🙏🏼
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