I do it daily by myself and irregularily with a group of friends of mine (sort of weekly our timetables permitting). I’ve also participated in a few day sesshins once or twice a year for over ten years.
I do it too. Pleased to meet you.
Do you do concentration meditation (anapanasati, samatha…) in preparation for shikantaza? (I used to, now I don’t).
Do you prefer the shikantaza state and find concentrative states distasteful? (I do somewhat)
Nice to meet you too.
I occasionally do counting/following breathing at start, especially if there is lots of “noise” in my head. Not sure that would count as actual anapanasati, but I guess that’s a line drawn on water in the end.
I do not find concentrative states offputting as such, just maybe not all that useful for me in the long run.
I perform isha kriya which seems similar but you have a yogi (in my case Sadhguru) repeat a phrase repeatedly for several minutes.
However the ending of it has about a 6 minute time of silence. Why do you ask?
I wouldn’t mind learning it, actually.
Here’s my favorite thing on the subject. It’s succinct.
I just took a look. It’s certainly concise, considering autism in mind. I wonder if the author is autistic.
Did you click the links to where shrink and grow are described and so on? Because there’s more there than just that first page.
I did do just that, wanting to understand what these links are about to quite an extent.
Do you like nylon zip-ties? I am presently quite infatuated. Pretty, durable, useful and cheap.
I happened to use the big ones for some things around my area, actually.
