Last time we talked about wise speech in various modes and contexts but didn’t get around to mentioning much about our always on worldwide internet society. In this twelfth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we return to wise speech this time in light of today’s instantaneously interconnected and increasingly globalist world. We also address frivolous and abusive speech as well as wise speech when it comes to women, men, men and women together, and other gender related stuff including pronouns, confusion and addressing beings from the heart. And how do we practice and work with this in a meditative context?
*There’s naturally an ongoing open call for meditation (related) questions for the (roughly) monthly “Meditation Q & A” either by the various social media means listed; integratingpresence[at]protonmail.com or Wisdom App to type/ask live.*
Background
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.
For a fewmonthsthereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.
Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”
On August 2, 2023, Spiritual Teacher, Author, and Professor Swami Nityananda and I spoke to/about non-dual awareness, joy, grace, everyday life, her teacher Swami Shankarananda and her lineage which includes Kriya Yoga and the Venerable Yogananda, presence, energy, inspiration, light, the infinite, perceptions of limitation, being in a body, identity, awareness, vastness, balance, experience, purpose, being grounded, how to move through psychic attack and existential crisis, wisdom, (unconditional) love, being of service, the highest good, calm, generosity, integration, unfoldment, illusion of separateness, expansion, absence of conflict, community, relationship, kindness, purification, responsiveness, entry and connection points to continually living in awakeness, inspiration and moving in the energy of all this.
Swami Nityananda is the spiritual teacher of the Awake Yoga Meditation community. She was consecrated by Swami Shankarananda as a Swami in 2014. Her teachings helps listeners and readers connect with the reality of love, wisdom, liberation, joy, harmony, and kindness. People who meditate with her find Swami Nityananda practices a selfless way of living in the world that asks, “How may I be of service?” and models through open-hearted, generous, and effervescent guidance, a path for us all to recognize our own inherent divine qualities, and to see the same in everyone.
As Juniper Ellis, she is Professor of English at Loyola University, where she teaches American Literature and World Literature Written in English. She earned her PhD at Vanderbilt University. She has held Fulbright grants in New Zealand and Germany, and other national awards including an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and an NEH grant. Her book Tattooing the World: Pacific Designs in Print and Skin was published by Columbia University Press. Her scholarly articles have appeared in respected journals in many English-speaking countries.
What the heck does “parimukhaṁ” mean? It’s mentioned in classic Buddhist meditation instructions and is often translated as something like “bring mindfulness to the fore.” Some other translations of this Pali word “parimukhaṁ” — found in the essential Satipaṭṭhāna and Ānāpānasati Suttas — are:
establish mindfulness in front
focuses their mindfulness right there
establishes mindfulness as foremost
arousing mindfulness in front of him
arouses mindfulness in the object of meditation, namely, the breath which is in front of him
keeps his body erect and his mindfulness alert. [Literally, “setting up mindfulness in front.”]
establishing mindfulness to the fore
setting mindfulness to the fore [lit: the front of the chest]
More on this topic from different angles later but first various translations of sutta selections where mukha appears to get an idea of how it works in the suttas.
The various translations below are from the following Pali portion of the Satipatthana Sutta — Discourse on Applications of Mindfulness:
It’s when a mendicant—gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut—sits down cross-legged, with their body straight, and focuses their mindfulness right there. Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out.
Monks, a monk who has gone to the forest, to the base of a tree, or to an empty building sits down, crosses his legs, sets his body upright, and establishes mindfulness as foremost. One breathes in mindfully, one breathes out mindfully.
And how, monks, does a monk fare along contemplating the body in the body? Herein, monks, a monk who is forest-gone or gone to the root of a tree or gone to an empty place, sits down cross-legged, holding his back erect, arousing mindfulness in front of him.
Here, O bhikkhus, a bhikkhu, gone to the forest, to the foot of a tree, or to an empty place, sits down, bends in his legs crosswise on his lap, keeps his body erect, and arouses mindfulness in the object of meditation, namely, the breath which is in front of him.
Herein, monks, a monk, having gone to the forest, to the foot of a tree or to an empty place, sits down with his legs crossed, keeps his body erect and his mindfulness alert.3 [3] Literally, “setting up mindfulness in front.”]
“And how does a monk remain focused on the body in & of itself?
“There is the case where a monk—having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building—sits down folding his legs crosswise, holding his body erect and establishing mindfulness to the fore [lit: the front of the chest].6 Always mindful, he breathes in; mindful he breathes out.
Note(s):
6. To the fore (parimukhaṁ): An Abhidhamma text, Vibhaṅga 12:1, defines this term as meaning “the tip of the nose or the sign of the mouth.” However, the term appears as part of a stock phrase describing a person engaged in meditation, even for themes that have nothing to do with the body at all, such as sublime-attitude (brahma-vihāra) meditation (AN 3:64). Thus it seems more likely that the term is used in an idiomatic sense, indicating either that mindfulness is placed face-to-face with its object, or that it is made prominent, which is how I have translated it here.
The same selection of Pali appearing above also appears in the Ānāpānasati Sutta — (often translated as Mindfulness of Breathing):
“There is the case where a monk, having gone to the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building, sits down folding his legs crosswise, holding his body erect, and establishing mindfulness to the fore.1
Same Note:
1. To the fore (parimukhaṁ): An Abhidhamma text, Vibhaṅga 12:1, defines this term as meaning “the tip of the nose or the sign of the mouth.” However, the term appears as part of a stock phrase describing a person engaged in meditation, even for themes that have nothing to do with the body at all, such as sublime-attitude (brahma-vihāra) meditation (AN 3:64). Thus it seems more likely that the term is used in an idiomatic sense, indicating either that mindfulness is placed face-to-face with its object, or that it is made prominent, which is how I have translated it here.
Here a bhikkhu, gone to the forest or to the root of a tree or to an empty hut, sits down; having folded his legs crosswise, set his body erect, and established mindfulness in front of him, ever mindful he breathes in, mindful he breathes out.
It’s when a mendicant has gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut. They sit down cross-legged, with their body straight, and establish mindfulness right there. Just mindful, they breathe in. Mindful, they breathe out.
[Or, it looks like there’s slight editing tweak since I first started working on this article:] It’s when a mendicant—gone to a wilderness, or to the root of a tree, or to an empty hut—sits down cross-legged, sets their body straight, and establishes mindfulness in front of them.
Established mindfulness in front of him (parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā) = having placed (ṭhapayitvā) mindfulness (satiṁ) facing the meditation subject (kammaṭṭhānābhimukhaṁ). Or alternatively, the meaning can be treated here too according to the method of explanation given in the Paṭisambhidā, which is this: Pari has the sense of control (pariggaha), mukhaṁ (lit. mouth) has the sense of outlet (niyyāna), sati has the sense of establishment (upaṭṭhāna); that is why parimukhaṁ satiṁ (‘mindfulness as a controlled outlet’) is said” (Paṭis I 176). The meaning of it in brief is: Having made mindfulness the outlet (from opposition, forgetfulness being thereby] controlled.
I’ve kind of wondered for awhile how exactly one “establishes mindfulness to the fore.” And in the suttas this seems more a prerequisite than an end goal as in one ought actually to establish mindfulness first before getting into the training. This may be in contrast to the perception of training the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and Ānāpānasati to result in (greater) mindfulness. (Although, granted, it seems likely a meditator both uses whatever degree of mindfulness is available from the get-go as well as training to cultivate mindfulness.)
. . . Just above this, we had one sits down cross legged, holds one’s body erect, and sets up mindfulness before oneself. I would say yeah, if you can sit cross legged, great. But we have these evil things called chairs. And they’ve screwed up our ability to sit cross legged. So sit in a chair, be on a bench, lie down if necessary. If you lie down to meditate, pull your knees up, so your feet are flat on the bed or floor or whatever you’re lying on. And your knees are up making a little triangle bear with your feet and your point where your knees touch each other. Okay. And then one sets up mindfulness before oneself, so literal translation, one sets up mindfulness at the mukha. Mukha means mouth, but I think it’s like the mouth of a cave, the opening, and I’m assuming that’s the opening at the nostrils.
As far as I know the Buddha never explicitly says to do the particular samatha technique (sometimes taught) of paying attention to the breath on just the edges of the nostrils and upper lip, or the “Ānāpāna spot.” Could this samatha technique originate, or partially originate from the word mukha or parimukhaṁ [as mentioned briefly in the aforementioned Leigh Brasington event] sometimes translated as mouth; face; entrance; opening; or front?
And could this mukha, this front entrance (also be extrapolated to) mean the opening(s) of/at the sense gates — body, nose, taste, sight, sound, and mind — the threshold where contact happens (and/or the noticing of phenomena arising and perishing wherever and however that happens and is sensed)?
If so, in meditation practice, how about taking it a step further by bringing attention and awareness to (certain) skillful and unskillful phenomena at the sense gates? And in particular paying attention to sense phenomena in the most conducive way(s) to further approach realizing full awakening as well as vice versa: what not to attend to in what way(s) in order to eradicate any and all sabotaging of eventual Nibbana?
So are there diplomatic compromises to all these different thoughts, ideas and translations especially in the context of mediation practice? How about something like practicing with the breath’s foremost (important) place? Perhaps, at least from time to time, this constitutes a physical association with the body and breath. Perhaps at other times it’s an energetic association with the body and breath. Maybe it’s some other association. And maybe it’s a combination. Can this include the”Ānāpāna spot” at times as well as the entire body as a whole? Why or why not is this legit?
Other stuff coming to mind around the word parimukhaṁ:
If it’s like the opening of a cave could this include (all) the passageways in the head like the nasal passages, ear openings and tubes, throat spaces, mouth and what the difference of this more external, upper beginning and end point breath energy when compared to the breath energy of air passages deeper (down) in the body?
If I’m getting this right, “pari-” is a prefix used with the connotation of around, about, all over, or that of completeness. Could this be like parinibbāna where “pari” means something like ultimate or complete or best overall then mixing with “mukhaṁ” as mouth, opening, entrance and/or any of the other mentioned interpretations for “mukhaṁ“?
There’s also the similar prefix “para”:
Definitions:
1. Beside; near; alongside: parathyroid.
2. Beyond: paranormal.
3. Incorrect; abnormal: paresthesia.
4. Similar to; resembling: paratyphoid fever.
5. Subsidiary; assistant: paraprofessional.
6. Isomeric; polymeric: paraldehyde.
Etymology:
para- (1)
before vowels, par-, word-forming element of Greek origin, “alongside, beyond; altered; contrary; irregular, abnormal,” from Greek para- from para (prep.) “beside, near; issuing from; against, contrary to” (from PIE *prea, from root *per- (1) “forward,” hence “toward, near; against”).
It is cognate with Old English for- “off, away.” Originally in English in Greek-derived words; it has been active in English mostly in scientific and technical words, but until recently was not usually regarded as a naturalized formative element in English.
para- (2)
before vowels par-, word-forming element of Latin origin meaning “defense, protection against; that which protects from,” from Italian para, imperative of parare “to ward off,” from Latin parare “make ready” (from PIE root *pere- (1) “to produce, procure”). It figures in parachute, parasol, parapet, etc.
Take and apply “para” in this meditative context. Perhaps this lends to more a vagueness and non-conventionality to what regularly experiences in worldly life, beyond what things seem on the surface. “Para” also brings to my mind “two” as in “pair.” In terms of breathing and mediation, there are plenty of pairs. In and out being the biggest. The in and out breath, two pauses between them, a start and an end to the in-breath, a start and an end to the out-breath, two nostrils and two lungs, an area preceding the nostrils and areas inside the body outside of the lungs.
The etymological “that which protects from” and “to ward off” seems reminiscent of the mindfulness instructions to guard the sense doors. Where, how and what is being allowed to go into and out of the body, senses, mind, etc. or going in and out without being allowed? How is the protection and friendliness?
This somehow reminded me of the Freemasonic notion of the Middle Chamber and the Buddha’s enlightenment poem which you’ll have to look both these up on your own and do your own contemplation on this if you feel there’s any relevance and/or helpfulness to come from it
It’s a stretch but could there kind of be the English words “muck” and “ham” in mukhaṁ and parimukhaṁ?
To be in the muck means to be in the thick of something one wouldn’t likely like to be in. Dirt. Challenging topics. Underbellies and the like. Or a muckraker is someone reporting on topics of the like.
The Chinook Jargonmuckamuck means food and muckamuck, sometimes derogatory means a person in a position of power or authority
A “ham” is someone who is the center of attention and acting in a way to be so. Obviously, ham is also a particular choice part of meat from a pig.
The “Dharmāloka-Mukhaṁ” (text) is translated as “Entrance into the Light of the Dharma”
Śraddhā Mārṣā Dharmāloka-mukham- Sirs, the faith entrance into the light of the Dharma
abhedy-āśayatāyai saṁvartate, opens the way to unbroken intention,
Thanissaro Bhikkhu mentions parimukhaṁ literally means “the front of the chest.” A few more modern sayings perhaps seem relavant to relating to parimukhaṁ in this way:
“that old chestnut”
“get that off my chest”
“hold _______ close to the heart”
“keep/hold your cards close (to your chest)”
So after examination and contemplation, how might be some other ways to approach (all) this in practice?
Placing All This Into Practice Possibilities
When examining, contemplating and playing with the words and notions for the translations of mukha and/or parimukhaṁ perhaps consider the following practice concepts in light of the corresponding instruction laid out in the Ānāpānasati and Satipatthana Suttas ‘Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu araññagato vā rukkhamūlagato vā suññāgāragato vā nisīdati, pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā, ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya, parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā‘ :
How about as a contemplation / meditation object sitting with: what does this “bring awareness to the fore” really mean and how ought it be implemented?
How about attention itself as a meditation object? Noticing the where/location, how and quality of attention from moment to moment?
And these, a mix of interpretation, perception and (meta-like, overarching) practice instructions:
Open up to the practice of [mindfulness]
Open/create a/the mindful(ness) space for [mindfulness practice]
Hold the/one’s intent [of cultivating mindfulness] close to the heart
Enter into (formal) mindfulness practice
Establishes a set, setting and utmost priority [for mindfulness (practice)]
One recalls, is aware of and realizes the distinction between inner and outer, interior and exterior of the body [for mindfulness cultivation]
Or maybe establishing mindfulness to the fore is an overall summation and preview of what one will be doing and/or what one does when practicing the Four Foundations of Mindfulness and Ānāpānasati?
On August 17, 2023, Strategic Advisor, entrepreneur, coach and reformed “seeker of success” and ambition Colin Kingsmill and I conversed about cultural cohesion, work-life balance, direction, knowing thyself, antiquated performance reviews, toolkits, integrity, burnout, core values, goals, men/guys (not) expressing needs, nourishment, progressing, living with intention, jettisoning unhelpful conditioning, being free, changing narratives, trauma, awareness, media diets, media as big business, self-kindness, health, reconnecting and rediscovering collective humanity and ourselves, healing in a toxic culture, fear, fearlessness, listening to the body, daily rituals, therapy, resiliency, and addressing psychological suffering by reaching out
Biography
Colin Kingsmill is an entrepreneur, coach and Founding Partner at Whole Human Coaching and a Strategic Advisor to Kaylo. He is currently authoring a book entitled “Fear Less: Crossing the Bridge from Fear to Bliss.”
When people get stuck at critical transition points in their lives, he assists them in deconstructing the stories in their heads, overcoming fear, and reconstructing a new narrative to move forward, live their authentic selves and thrive. He has an acute ability to sense-make in this complex world.
His ability to fast-track clarity of mind with insight and humour guides people of all ages through relationship dynamics, confidence building, self-improvement, overcoming challenges and achieving desired results.
He believes that we have lost touch with our shared humanity and have become distracted by division, identity politics, negative news cycles, corporate and special interest greed and other forces that crush our souls.
He is on a mission to help people rediscover their humanity, be fearless and free, and remember who they are and who they will be to change the world.
About Colin by Colin:
I was born in Canada and raised between the Gulf Islands of British Columbia and the Swiss Alps. I have lived and worked (fallen and gotten back up again) globally, from Bora Bora and Beverly Hills to Montenegro & Serbia, London, Tuscany, the Indian Ocean, Thailand and everywhere in between.
The first part of my career was in Swiss banking. I did it for 10 years; co-founding an investment firm, until I broke in 2001 after having ticked all the boxes of “success”: MBA in Finance and Marketing, marriage, entrepreneurship. Christmas in St. Moritz and Easter in St. Tropez kind of stuff. You get the picture. In 2001 I gave everything I owned away (Buddha style) and moved back to Vancouver to start fresh. Literally, I began to redesign everything from scratch.
I have spend the last 20 years in international sales & marketing, branding and communications. I have really seen it all, from flying in private jets, sailing on super yachts, and mingling with industry titans; meeting Hillary Clinton and Elton John and hanging out in George Clooney’s villa on Lake Como when it was owned by the Heinz family. On the flip side of all the shiny stuff, I have also suffered the hardships of divorce and personal bankruptcy, depression and crippling anxiety.
My whole adult life I have said “yes” to opportunities without knowing what was coming next or what the consequences might be. Now I am writing Fear Less: Crossing the Bridge from Fear to Bliss, 8 steps to fearless living bringing this tapestry of life experiences to serve others.
Thanks to this vast collage of experiences, I have become an expert in helping people fearlessly pivot and make meaningful shifts in their lives when they find themselves stuck or at a daunting intersection professionally or personally.
After spending the last twelve years living and working in Europe, now I reside in the peaceful seaside town of Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada connected to nature where I can best serve my high-performing clients.
In this eleventh installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we chat about how complex speaking wisely can be. We get into the confusion of words spoken amongst various social and cultural contexts and situations; guidelines; kindness; authenticity; perceptions, intent; responsibility; non-harm; assumptions; dogmatic ideas; entitlement; empowerment; being of service; infringement; and various polarities like callousness and oversensitivity, saying something despite knowing better and not speaking up when you know you need to, and differences amongst and between genders
*There’s naturally an ongoing open call for meditation (related) questions for the (roughly) monthly “Meditation Q & A” either by the various social media means listed; integratingpresence[at]protonmail.com or Wisdom App to type/ask live.*
Background
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.
For a fewmonthsthereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.
Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”
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I introduce Randi Green’s sequences of various processes of unparalleled and incomparable energy work and processes as happening in real-time including Soul tones / light languages Sound, light, and consciousness fields Past / present life connections Some language origins White Sirian elder races & Pleiadian connections Journeys in vision Cube, spheres, and holographic teaching system tech Working with symbols, genetics, spheres, existences, consciousness, awareness, perception, light, vibration, the radiation center in the middle of the head leading into graduate for existence Brain field rings 2) Holographic code transfer involving entering a pillar and sphere of light; light body transformation and biofield integration 3) Transfiguring Sirian female coding 4) Light, meta consciousness, progressive races 5) Knowledge from the ultimate outcome for template and Heartfield integration Heartfelt exploration of non-existence, beingness, silence, recreation, & infusing positive qualities.
I introduce part 2 of Randi Green’s incomparable energy work and processes as related in real-time. Repeating the previous day’s sequence from vertical position she adds a third component to two newly generated fields and spheres to arrive at a new organic tone of well-being and gratitude. She enters the Sirian library through the merging of 33 buddhas into a light pillar where crystal discs turn into light coding for integration into being a living library keeper perhaps to its finalization. Randi then activates the Aditi layer to access deva realms and limitlessness; explores various realms of Buddhist cosmology; encounters the Lord of the Yakkhas; disentangles from forces like greed, unfairness, and envy; masters the womb; confronts craving for mastery; and explains polarity, primordial Buddha, some of the thunderbolt and Bodhisattva paths, right attitudes for rebirth via the void, still point transformations, and goes in-depth with sexuality as the unification of opposites
I introduce my fiancée Randi Green’s teachings and instructions about the Still Point for meditation and energy work. This recording includes silence, stillness, calm, quiet, cessation, gaps between thoughts, how to better see rising/ceasing, the receiving and perceiving of energy, working with pleasant/unpleasant, how to work with body challenges including right relationship and kindness as preliminaries; vertical sitting position; central nervous system; mental > mind > radiation fields; balancing the emotional system; neither going too far in nor out; contents of the mental fields; identifying what we want to connect to, work with and clear; working with various layers and levels of golden energy around the head and the golden center; receiving and working with other levels of energy from our existence and the exercise of observing the center of the brain for the still point.
This bonus of sorts to my Progressive Breath Awareness Booster course is actually a type of micro-course in and of itself with all new material. To really get the proper instructions on how to work with what you’re about to hear, please check out the first two recordings in my Progressive Breath Awareness Booster course, the brief “Introduction,” as well as “Day 1.” Both of these are free on Insight Timer. Like the main course, there are the questions and practice suggestion sections, but this recording lacks the perceptions section. The intent with such new, unique and sometimes very minutely detailed questions and practice suggestions is to challenge us to access and cultivate awareness of breath on deeper and more expansive levels. This serves to develop greater overall breath awareness mastery in order to simply maintain a more continuous bare awareness of breath on and off the meditation cushion.
This guided practice implements identifying and knowing sensations and energy dynamics on the micro, macro and wholistic scales in order to access somatic subtlety or take current access to the next level. We dive deep into somatically experiencing and knowing the origins of arising bodily energy and sensation; their flavors and types; how energy and sensation can seem to persist, move, change and desist. We also open to phenomena in and around the physical body as well as the general field of awareness by using a predominate locus of attention in the physical body then expand to the entire body, beyond the body finally bouncing back to just body.
. . . most of us have been pushed into other timelines where they have literally worn down our Energy System in whatever projects they have found fruitful for them so they could continue their “progression Sciences,” their continued developmental programs because one of the things that are important in the mission statements from the future was that we had Gene codes to recalibrate and restore genes. And that’s a huge bomb. That’s why we’ve been targeted so hard and pushed into so many negative programs because they’re literally trying to extract that code from our Energy System so they can apply to their own. They have used many of the future human civilizations that have come back — traveled back in time — to be the Breeders within their programs. We didn’t know that when we came here.
What does “good” and “evil”, right and wrong even mean
In what context is it used
One’s perceptions of this
What’s helpful to oneself
Expanded awareness
For self, other and reality
Highest progression for all
Polarity (of high energy)
In the long-term
Harm and ill-will
Being the lighthouse so not to fall into darkness
Artificial 4D and 5D cloaking after Atlantis reseeding
Individual energy systems and genetics
A type of future holographic network technology:
it’s meant to literally combine the different levels of genetic and Consciousness potentials that are represented in the council members and from that connect to the different past / present / future timelines from where it can process the most optimal outcome of what is seen and perceived when it scans this reality compared to what they offer in the councils
Some advice for clearing and inner work:
Know thyself
Meditation
Contemplation
Processing information systems
Inner realm work
Inner narratives
Food
Feelings
What do I want? Where do I want to go? How?
Trusting internal guidance and testing it
Administer one’s heart and energy
Cultivate resilience
Checking if one is on the right track
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In this tenth installment of the ongoing live series with Wendy Nash inquiring into meditation practice on and off the cushion we explore fundamentals of mediation via the questions: How do I meditate? Am I meditating right? We addressed some of the groundwork in What Is Meditation? | 11/2/2022 “Meditation Q & A With Wendy Nash” #02.
*There’s naturally an ongoing open call for meditation (related) questions for the (roughly) monthly “Meditation Q & A” either by the various social media means listed; integratingpresence[at]protonmail.com or Wisdom App to type/ask live.*
Background
Regular, current and past visitors to Integrating Presence may recall the monthly series “Ask Us Anything” I did with Denny K Miu from August 2020 until January 2022 — partially including and continuing on with Lydia Grace as co-host for awhile until March 2022.
For a fewmonthsthereafter I did various Insight Timer live events exploring potential new directions and/or a continuation of the Ask Us Anything format while weaving in other related teachings to these events.
Then, after chats with meditation coach Wendy Nash, it became clear to start a new collaboration similar to “Ask Us Anything” simply and clearly called “Meditation Q & A” especially due to the original intent of the Ask Us Anything’s being “discussions about meditation and related topics.”
I first heard about the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antartica on a long kind of roundtable on all kind of strange topics with claims it can also act as mind control, earthquake manufacturing, and interstellar communications at greater than light speed.
Here’s what the thing officially is according to wikipedia:
Similar to its predecessor, the Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA), IceCube consists of spherical optical sensors called Digital Optical Modules (DOMs), each with a photomultiplier tube (PMT)[4] and a single-board data acquisition computer which sends digital data to the counting house on the surface above the array.[5] IceCube was completed on 18 December 2010.[6]
DOMs are deployed on strings of 60 modules each at depths between 1,450 and 2,450 meters into holes melted in the ice using a hot water drill. IceCube is designed to look for point sources of neutrinos in the teraelectronvolt (TeV) range to explore the highest-energy astrophysical processes.
In November 2013 it was announced that IceCube had detected 28 neutrinos that likely originated outside the Solar System.[7]
Then there’s longer in-depth information via remote viewing with modern technological scientific research added on later the about the observatory’s capabilities to send and receive encoded messages in neutrinos; detect other information like radiation signatures from (UAF) crafts as well as detect artificially created signals from other civilizations:
But what I really want to share is Randi’s new brief cursory take on this thing. She recommends watching the related clip from the movie 2012 beforehand:
OK, finally, here’s what Randi has to say:
Audio: Randi Green on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
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