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I have a question.
Is it possible to recognize or measure the stage of samadhi during meditation without exiting the samadhi and/or inviting “mind monkeys” into the meditation?
Hi Neti-Neti-Yeti
In context of this post, the variables within 1.17 can be discerned during a session. In 1.18 there is no longer any need for recognition, recognition of what and by whom?
I can see this.
In the spirit of like-minded seeking, I would observe from my study of sanskrit (somewhat brief during college) in the definition of:
samprajñāta
the root “sam” (which is also found in the term “sanskrt” itself) is very complex and also carries the sense of “sacred”.
This root has always fascinated me because from it, we derive such words in English as “same” and “song”. To engage in a bit of poetics, it could be said that samadhi is the sacred song of perfect being.
The addition of the prefix “a” generally is negational, meaning “not” or “un”, or in this case, as I understand it, it would have the sense of “absence”. Most meditators realize soon enough that what falls away in meditation is abundantly significant.
And in a sense, to explore this poetic nuance of “sacred harmony” or of “song”, all vibrations of consciousness, as it were, which are not in tune are brought in tune.
So perhaps it is not there is nothing to be perceived in mind of samadhi; in this sense of “absence”, it could be fruitful to say there is nothing which is perceptible in discord. One might say it is the process of tuning the mind, or of becoming “attune” to mind.
Ultimately, when there is no more discord with the music of Buddha nature, it is:
asamprajnata.
If so, it could be said that engagement at the level of asamprajnata is if the song of mind is in perfect symphony with the song of the Buddhas. When we no longer perceive the discord is when we hear the music of reality freed from all delusion.
Marvelous! Thanks for that
No, my friend, thank you!