Meditation – Numbness – Stillness – Peace
Meditation Journal Entry from 1999 one just finished meditating for a half hour. A fairly blank peace came over the
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Fatness Feeling During Meditation | 1998
Meditation Journal Entry about the Fatness Feeling I meditated two nights ago on the futon in one of the bedrooms
Read moreDisenchantment Wipes Out All Attachment | 1998
Disenchantment or, Non-Attachment Arises Over the past couple of days (this is sometime in 1998) while meditating I haven’t written
Read moreMeditation and Numbness, No Body, No Self | 1998
Meditation, Numbness, No body, No Self I read part of J. Krishnamurti’s book, Commentaries on Living at the bookstore. (in
Read moreChanging States of Consciousness While Meditating | 1998
Meditation Journal Entry from 1998 Mind Shift… Conscious Dimension Shift… Sitting in the reclining chair with my feet up on
Read moreEmotions, Spontaneous Mindfulness | 1997
Meditation Journal Entry – 1997 Meditation tonight. Shut off lights, stared at the orange glow from incense. It was easy
Read moreNumbness, Missing Body Parts | 1998
1998 Meditation Journal entry The numbness is very strange… it is like the body is missing… absent… or is it
Read moreMeditation Journal Entry 25 | 1998
I just meditated for 25-40 mins. In the blue room of the house. The mind became calm eventually–but followed many
Read moreMeditation Re-Starts Journal Day 1 | 1998
Meditation Journal 1998 This morning at maybe 6:30 as one was sitting on the balcony of our 7th floor hotel
Read moreDay 4 – Intensive Meditation Practice
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 4 In the evening I sat in the back of the apartment on the
Read moreDay 6 – Intensive Meditation Practice
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 6 Today I awoke without any back pain at all. None. It was surreal.
Read moreDay 8 – Intensive Meditation Practice
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 8 Virtually no back pain still. My ‘luck’ is holding… If I thought it
Read moreDay 11 – Intensive Meditation Practice
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 11 Today started out with rain, ended with rain and had lots of rain
Read moreDay 10 – Intensive Meditation Experience
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 10 Unending Mindfulness I thought of changing the title a couple of times –
Read moreDay 9 – Intensive Meditation Experience
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 9 It rained all last night – intense rain. I don’t know if this
Read moreDay 18 – Intensive Meditation Practice
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 18 It has been nice weather here for the past week. I spent a
Read moreDay 3 – Intensive Meditation Practice
May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 3 Today went well. I had a lot of things to do today but
Read moreDay 7 – Intensive Meditation Practice
After yesterday I didn’t know what to expect today. Today was just a regular day, but there was no stress
Read moreBody Dying Dream
This occurred in about 1997. I wake up from sleeping (in my dream). I go into the living room area
Read moreDay 2 – Intensive Practice
Meditation Journal Today began with rain, ended with rain, and as I sit here the next morning – it’s raining.
Read moreNew Articles Section
I added a new ARTICLES section on the lower right side of every page in the sidebar. It looks like
Read moreVarious Meditation – Outside, Walking, Mirror
Walking, Outside, Mirror Meditation – 1998 Sitting in the garage on the jacuzzi pad and towels one couldn’t get focused
Read moreMirror Meditation – Looking at Self as Meditating
Meditating on the spa in the garage today in the morning 7:30. There was an instant calmness and emptiness that
Read moreMeditation at Suan Mokkh Temple and Thoughts on Reality
What is Suan Mokkh Temple Like for Meditation on Your Own? I wandered around Suan Mokkh again today. My family
Read moreMountain Climb, Flat Mind, and a Question
March 8, 2015 I haven’t written here in a while. My foot felt OK today so I climbed the steps
Read morePre-Jhana Levels – Experience
I found this post on an old backup CD-ROM I have. I had posted to some meditation group about some
Read moreThe Feeling of “Me”
Alan Watts, one of my favorite speakers, has said that the feeling of ourselves, the feeling of the tangible self
Read moreIs 2014 the Year I Meditate Again?
This past year, 2013, has been rather torturous. I’ve never felt more lost. I don’t know what to focus on
Read moreMeditation State – I Am the Noise
Note – This is an old journal article I wrote in 1998 or so. I don’t have the date written
Read moreMind Shift While Rollerblading – Shifted Consciousness
Mindfulness While Rollerblading… Mind Shift While rollerblading with Fern I noticed that when I looked down at the pavement there
Read moreA Meditation Poem
“Endless Mind…” Let me sit a while body mass dissipates leaves sponge-like empty form fingers, arms & legs all gone
Read moreThe Process – Meditation Mystery…
This a.m. while sitting on the balcony of our 7th floor hotel room in Melbourne one was not trying to
Read moreThe White Elephant in my Head
You know the saying, there is a white elephant in the room? Well, there is one in my head. It’s
Read moreThe World is Illusion
This occurred on Dec 2, 2011 at the top of a small mountain on the temple grounds of Wat Tham
Read moreCloudy Head – Uncreative State
I’ve been feeling this for weeks now, it’s pretty impossible to describe, but I’ll give it a try. There’s nothing
Read moreStill State of Mind
Published July 6, 2010. Page updated 8 March 2019. There is still – after a couple of years now, I
Read moreEnlightenment Dreams?
A little status update – I’ve not written for a while – nothing really happening. I’m not consciously sitting at
Read moreShort Dream: I’m in the Way
I just remembered this dream last night, though I had it about 2 weeks ago. I thought I wrote a
Read moreLayers of Reality 6-21-09
Today I went to one of my favorite quiet spots. I layed down and watched the mind as it responded
Read moreWhat Am I Looking At? 5-31-09
Over the last few months 6? 8? there’s been this constant stillness of mind that is always there. If I
Read moreNibbana, Nirvana, or Hypnotic State? 5-23-09
sat 23 may 09 Without writing a book about this… I want to mention it I guess because if at
Read moreConstant Stillness 5-16-09
Over the last few months, there has been this constant stillness of mind that is always there. If I stop
Read moreGlowing Head | Strange Dream
This dream occurred on 5-1-2008. [This page last updated: 8 March 2019] Yesterday I lay on the floor in my
Read moreBuddhism | The Truth of It
I wrote this on April 23, 2009. [This text last updated on 8 March 2019] I’m not Buddhist per se.
Read moreMeditation Experiences Timeline 4-21-08
I was just thinking that it would be good for me to put down in writing some sort of timeline
Read moreNo Mind – Perception Shift 4-11-09
I sat the other evening (4/11). It was about 8pm and I had no motivation to do anything else. Not
Read moreMind Stops… Hiccups Too! 4-9-08
This morning I was anxious to eat breakfast. I had kow pad gai (skinless chicken breast over jasmine rice). It
Read moreLayers of Reality 3-16-08
Last night an odd experience came to me as the body prepared for sleep. I went into one of the
Read moreUnsettled Feeling 3-7-08
Finish the Journey, or Not? I’ve gone for a couple of months without meditating since stopping in September after realizing
Read moreWhat is the Point of Nirvana? 9-27-07
9-27-07 Today I climbed the steps at the mountain at Wat Tham Suea again. A Thai boy of 8
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