Training Concentration and Silence

[Urrumazz]

I will share a way that seems interesting and somewhat useful
. You know that way that some songs react to your emotional response. 
I'm 100% sure that most of you have a specific song that triggers some specific emotions.
Well now for this practice play that song, or any other.( If its a song you've never heard, could work better, as there could be some key points that might react to your awareness.)
Once listening try not having any emotional responses, just as if it's not playing at all.

One other thing you can do is, put your attention on specific repetitive sounds, and experiment.  

Got any good suggestions of other techniques, please share.
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[Billy]

"Once listening try not having any emotional responses, just as if it's not playing at all."       or/and--->  pretend you are cannibalizing someone  [OH YES.. metaphorically (or not)]

 

I encourage others to respond here..   How does it TASTE?

On the other hand- I ask the one being eaten, "How does it FEEL? [surrender dearie- I am going to eat you anyway]

[Billy]

[Guest]

Urrumazz wrote:
I'm 100% sure that most of you have a specific song that triggers some specific emotions.
Well now for this practice play that song, or any other.( If its a song you've never heard, could work better, as there could be some key points that might react to your awareness.)
Once listening try not having any emotional responses, just as if it's not playing at all.
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Feeling no emotional response is why I listen to music.  It sounds as though we function in opposite ways.  You're saying attempt to listen to music and not have an emotional response.  As though you are aiming to attain no-thing.  My issue is I require a break from the no-thing, hence I seek out music to help me to feel emotion; to be consumed by it.  Why?

Why do some use music to enter the state of no-thing and others use music to leave the state of no-thing?

A break from perspective is my reason.

The no-thing is wide and vast, the thing is small.  Maybe the exercise is to gain a broader perspective, no matter where the listener is coming from.  I use music to feel grounded.  You use music to join the collective.  What does this say about our homes and where we spend most of our time?  I use the term "you" as more a general reference.  I'm not entirely sure why you, personally, use music.  Meditation is certainly one way to use it.  Setting an affirmation is another.  Divination a third.

[Urrumazz]

Sorry, It seems I made a mistake, due to my current situational position.
Let me rephrase myself.
Listen to music and try not to have it reflect your feelings of yourself,rather listen to it and try to get a feeling of the totality and the concept of it.

Try getting an emotional feel of what it represents and grasp the concept behind it. Assign a flow, your own specific one.

Thus you are totally correct and I see my flaws of thinking.

A person should admit distorted awarenesses.

[Urrumazz]

My mistake comes with a Jem.

[glance left]

Yeah, that silent space, once open, is ripe to be filled with anything really. It's really incredible interacting with the form of the diverse world around me while simultaneously cultivating silent spaciousness. And music does a wonderful job of filling that space in a transitory fashion, rich with feeling, that tends to leave the space untouched as long as the dialog doesn't get triggered and perpetuate itself in a way that cuts me off from the fundamental silence.

I've become a simpleton, really. I have one job....to uphold silence....to open up that space and sustain that state. And then what comes in just comes on in and through, makes for an avid and every increasing appreciation of what my this life of form is supposed to be about. Sometimes what comes in and through merges in miraculous ways with the inherent energy that vibrates in the open space, creating a crescendo of feeling that is just indescribable. A kind of synchronicity that's seems impossible to explain. Music is a frequent vehicle for these moments, I'm finally figuring out

[serloco]

I do something with sound I will share. Your perception merges with your attention, and your attention can guide the sound. Sound becomes one in alignment. Even well crafted thoughts can form and guide the sound. Try controlling your perception. Often when I listen I tell the music what to become. My thoughts and ideas merge and become the experience. Music is made fluid and becomes everything you can imagine.

[glance left]

One of the techniques I've been employing is using inner silence, first, to uncover a particular sensation in the body...or associated with the body. It's a soft, high-frequency vibration that bathes the body...and it emerges in the context of silence. Once uncovered, I found I can anchor my awareness onto that soft, subtle vibration, which helps to perpetuate inner silence...which, in turn, helps to nourish that vibrational energy sensation. They feed into one another.....positive reinforcement

Whenever I get waylaid by the internal dialog, throughout the day, when I notice I've been diverted, I stop and look inward/outward to recover that feeling, which disperses the much more course, disruptive, flickering vibration that comes from the FI. That fluttering, back-and-forth sensation stationed on the top of my head seems to be the thought generator...i.e. compulsive thoughts seem to originate from that back-and-forth fluttering. If awareness/attention is stationed in that softer, more nourishing vibration long enough, though....the more disruptive sensations settle down and disperse.

Easier to do during meditation sessions, ofc....but, I'm finding that state is becoming more and more available throughout the day amidst interactions at work, with family, etc.....

The intent is to merge those interval sessions of silence/vibration until sustained in cohesion

[Guest]