Watch the tip of your nose from below
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Close your eyes and observe for some time the tip of your nose for any sensations. Just observe and feel the place, just be there.
Have you noticed that you observed your nose from above, that your point of observation, the center of reference, was from the level of the eyes.
The level of the eyes is tended to be for many of us, especially for the heavy thinkers, the place where they feel their "I" is located. It appears that there is no physiological reason for that, no special nerve center concerned with awareness or identity that is located there. It is probably because vision is the sense humans most rely on and consequently identify with and therefore you assume yourself to be located there. Plus, you associate your thinking (with which you are mostly identified) to take place around there somewhere in the head.
You also project this location of "I" on others: when you want to watch someone intimately, really watch "him" - you look at his eyes.
Now let's return to the exercise: close your eyes again and this time watch the top of your head. Naturally, you watch it from below (as your eyes are located below the top of your head). Then, slowly start shifting the object of your observation from the top of your head downwards until you reach the tip of your nose while maintaining all the time the point of observation to be always below the current body object observed.
Until you reach the level of your eyes with the observed object, you will, of course, not encounter any problem in keeping the point of observation below the object. When you pass the level of your eyes, try to keep on maintaining the point of observation below. Use the inertia of having the point of reference below until now and try to continue it while assuming for a minute that having the point of observation associated with the area of the eyes is just a belief (you will soon see that it is indeed so). You may encounter some difficulties in the beginning as you are strongly conditioned to associate your point of observation with the area of your eyes for many years. But after some trials, you will suddenly notice that you watch the tip of your nose from below!
See what happens later on during the day to your sense of "I" and to the level of your thinking.
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My "I" has relocated
mmm my sense of "I" has relocated to right above my upper lip. Interesting!
after some time it returrned back
after some time it returrned back to the eyes level but then if i close my eyes and run againthe technique, even quickly, it resettles at above the upper lip.
when we are unconscious
Of course. When we are unconscious the "I" returns back to its conditioned place.
Keep on doing it and with time you will see that it finally settles in the new location.
More importantly, be aware to whatever happens to the intensity of thinking and specifically to the intensity of the I-thought. This is the real magic.
mmm interesting!
Haven't noticed until now that my eyes move when I observe sensations in my body and moreover, that they dictate the point of view. Surprising is the feeling to observe the node from below. I have managed to reach the area of the heart as the observing point (i.e. to refer to anything above the chest from below) but I fail to lower the point of reference any further.
Can you look at what you're doing?
Somebody tell me, please, what the advantage is of imagining where you are located in the body. Of course, we know it is entirely symbolic and you're not located at some place in the body, right? If thinking is important to you, you identify with the head. If feelings are more important, you identify with the heart. If you're sexually deprived, the I AM THAT I AM divine center of the I is postioned squarely between the legs.
This is all mental association, and isn't even accurate at that. Feelings don't actually happen in the heart and the mind isn't limited to the head. If you mentally associate with a certain area of the body, that's what it is. How does imagining you associate falsely with another symbolic part change anything? It's another story that you write for yourself as a technique to accomplish something, and then you play it out, imagining that your sense of self has changed somehow or your thoughts are calming down. It might work as long as you believe your own story, and then it will betray you just like every other story, every method, every technique.
you will find the advantage
you will find the advantage only when you try it instead of intellectualizing about it. Just try it and you will see by yourself, leave for one hour the second-hand radical theories and the judgment, just try it and you will see by yourself how transformative this exercise is.
a clue provided at the end of the post: "See what happens later on during the day to your sense of "I" and to the level of your thinking."
I agree
it is transformative and the only way is to test it.
"you will find the advantage
"you will find the advantage only when you try it instead of intellectualizing about it. Just try it and you will see by yourself, leave for one hour the second-hand radical theories and the judgment, just try it and you will see by yourself how transformative this exercise is."
Okay, thanks.
Have you ever done vipassana?
You are talking out of ignorance. It is very irresponsible to negate things based just on a mere theory or hypothetical opinion. Irresponsible mainly towards yourself. Anyone who ever did Vipassna, for example, will dismiss your above speculation right away. Feeling happens in the body as it is a mental abstraction of body sensations but this is irrelevant to the post which its aim is to dislocate the sense of "I" and thus shake it and shake the deep-rooted perception of the "I" feeling, similar and in accordance to what Ramana Maharshi talked about (the head, the heart center etc.)
"You are talking out of
"You are talking out of ignorance. It is very irresponsible to negate things based just on a mere theory or hypothetical opinion."
Okay, sorry. I'll keep my ignorant theory and opinions to myself. Thanks.
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tip of nose
I think to meditate on tip of nose/ watch the tip of nose is wrong .It is just theoretical and misunderstood from the ancient text.
The right technique is to concentrate/mediate in between your eye brows ,by watching tip of nose one can have permanent problems in eyes & by watching in between will result awakening of third eye.
This is my personal experience.
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