Re: Meditating for a specific insight?
Okay, I'll try to explain how I do this. I do it with specific sentences or sometimes just a word that represents something specific.
I use it as a mantra while I slip into the trance state (for me, that's usually pretty quick). Then once I'm "there" (you know, that little "click" sensation?) I repeat the word or phrase once with the strong intention of "fixing" it in my mind. Then I let it resonate there. It's a bit like uhm.... To me it's like having a piece of chocolate in your mouth and letting it melt slowly. You just hold it there, maybe move it around a little as necessary, but it's just there, and you're just letting it be there, until it dissolves and you get the essence of it. (Which, with chocolate, is usually, "Yum" )
Sometimes the word(s) will kind of echo or ricochet around inside my consciousness. Occasionally I have to repeat the word or phrase just to get a greater sense of it, but mostly I can just "fix" it and let it dissolve.
If it's not an abstract concept, I generally visualise what it is. A koan, for example, can be visualised. The one about the frog jumping into the pond can be visualised over and over, from different angles, etc. The same is true of parables, although some of the longer ones are difficult to maintain, so you have to focus on a smaller part of it (depends on the story as to which part you want to keep in focus, although you can do the parts sequentially if you want to).
I find the easiest is to use a word that I've intended to mean something specific. And example might be "money". I can keep that word fixed in my mind and let my mind show me what "money" is all about, how I feel about it, what it looks like energetically, all sorts of stuff. In that case, I'm not really meditating on the word but on the underlying concept.
I hope some of that made sense. I've never really tried to describe it before. It's really quite difficult to do!
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