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Satori Word/Phrase Practice
Word.Phrase Practice can develop your nonconceptual experience (Satori). Out of this practice comes what is known as absolute nonconceptual experience. Here consciousness activity halts save for the word/phrase in which we are absorbed.
Word/Phrase practice (WPP) asks questions defying a logical response. Typical WPP words: "That" or "What is my face prior to my parents being born?" This last example is certainly a nonsensical question.
In WPP no direct connection exists between question and answer. If a connection can be made, then the WPP exercise would not work. WPP must lead the doer to a complete impasse. When logical solutions are dropped, then, and only then can proper WPP begin.
The WPP is not thought of, yet it remains in the mind day and night. (This process may be sped up with certain Emoclear processes done in reverse). A conflict arises between failing to find a solution and not dropping the Word/Phrase. If the WP is worked on intensely, the doer will fuse with the WP. Here the entire consciousness fills with the WP.
Persevering in the practice, the student finds the WP abruptly dissapears from consciousness. The doer is on the brink of Satori. Peak effort better be continued without reflection, without attending to any object. Consciousness remains empty.
Often nonconceptual experience, in WPP, is triggered by an abrupt sense perception. Something catches our visual attention or a sound shatters the stillness. Perhaps an emotion vaults to the surface. Realization comes suddenly and unexpectedly. Sometimes it is independent of sitting practice. The doer has no control over the where or the when of nonconceptual experience via WPP.
INITIAL THAT PRACTICE Word/Phrase Practice (WPP) is best started at ground zero. Here are the basic steps to "that" practice:
(1) Check wandering thoughts. Mouth slightly opened. Breath is forced through narrow gap between lips. This controls wandering thoughts. As we breathe out we subvocally say: "That...That...That..." At each new "that" we experience fresh tension in the lower abdomen. The abdomen collapses slowly, yet we don't let the lower portion of the abdomen fall completely. Exhale until your reserve air volume is almost expired. Then inflate the lower abdomen.
(2) Mouth is closed and tongue is pressed firmly against the palate. Breathe through your nostrils. "That" soundlessly accompanies you exhale. "That" is intellectually meaningless. We experience "that" without conceptualizing it. We take "that" simply as the sound of our breath and let go of any ideas. (Clear any ideas with Emoclear processes that might pop up during WPP--do this before starting) Powerfully say: "that" inwardly with your vocal cords. Subvocally using your vocal cords is effective for throwing strength into your lower abdomen. Say "that" in one breath: "That...That...That..." Or you might say: "Th...aa...aa...aa..aa..aa..t. Count breaths priot to "that" so you can check wandering thoughts. Count only three breaths and then start over until the wandering thoughts are under control.
COMPLEX WORD/PHRASE PRACTICE Here is a list of word.phrase practice questions: (1) If you experience the nonconceptual, do you still answer to cause and effect? (2) Where is good and evil--over there? (3) If you removed all the substance from the NAP Page--what would be left? (4) Where was your freedom yesterday? (5) What is the meaning of Emoclear coming to Ft. Smith Arkansas? (6)Who gives you nonconceptual experience and where do you put it? (7) Does a blind dog have nonconceptual experience? (8) Is the smell in the mind or the mind in the smell? (9) When is the fire of hell, the light of heaven? (10) Where were good and bad before you were born?
TIPS ON DOING WORD/PHRASE PRACTICE
* The best posture for this kind of experience is one where you are balanced, centered, and relaxed with a straight spine and buttocks thrust comfortably back. Sitting on a straight-back metal folding chair, a seiza bench, or a kneeling "computer" chair will offer fine results. The full-lotus presents difficulties for most westerners and is not required. The straight back keeps intrusive thoughts to a minimum.
* Sit relaxed with your spine straight and your buttocks thrust back. A straight spine keeps your mind alert and slows waves of thought. Keep head, neck, and spine aligned. Ears in line with the shoulders and the tip of the nose is in line with the navel. Your eyes can be open or closed. However, if they're open sit in a room without visual distraction. If you wear glasses remove them during practice.
*When you do wpp, subvocally recite the wp and pay full attention to it during one slow and deep exhalation. Take each syllable, word by word, and say it with all your attention, dwelling at length on each word. At each change of sound, give stress to the abdominal respiratory muscles.
*Keeping wp in mind for a time without watering it down by other thoughts, will make the word/phrase appear to fill your entire consciousness.
*The solution for wpp is not a particular answer at all. It's the ability to fully respond to the present. Be fully in the moment--in the asking and in the answering.
* When first putting the WP into practice, you can help install it and make it stable for it's sudden eruption, by using only the Vortex tapping process (Important: Tap from the Root Chakra going in reverse all the way up to the crown chakra at the top of the head. This reversing adds energy, yet it makes the WP more stable for its eventual volitile eruption into a profound Satori State.)
* Push the wp into your abdominal muscles.
* As your WP matures during the day or the night--tap your solar plexus gently. No more than 4 times. Use your palm.
*Let go of mechanically repeating wp over and over in your head. Give it aliveness and freshness. Throw your full intention into it.
*WPP contains mundane objects such as dogs, places, everyday things. WPP halts our tendency to cling to abstract concepts. WP practice is not a matter of intellectual understanding or believing.
*WPP can not be understood by logic and the meaning can not be transmitted by words.
*The complete solution to wpp involves the movement from conceptual delusion to an energetic awareness of clarity.
*To realize your wp is to be it completely. Nothing added. Nothing subtracted.
* Let go of trying to figure it out--that doesn't work.
*WP practice limits intellectual process. The practice grabs our intuition.
* Don't do this stuff around outside influences--your reality checking is definately out the window. You are wide open here. Don't even drive until about 8 hours after you've done this work.
* Understanding is full experiencing. Nothing added/nothing subtracted.
*Put all your energy and attention into being absorbed in w/p practice.
*WPP sometimes brings attitudes, emotions, memories, physical sensations into consciousness where it can be fully acknowledged and accepted.
*A single thought separates you from your WP.
*Focusing on the intellectual side of wpp is like reading the liner notes of a CD and never listening to the music.
*WP is not words and ideas. WPP brings us directly into the present.
* When you grab wp in absolute nonconceptual experience, you will then grab the wp with reason. What was intuitively grasped better be experienced with reason so that an objectively confirmed understanding comes. We connect concepts to our experience.
*WPP if practiced enough will return from the unconscious as an inspiration. Your w/p will show itself to you in experience.
*WPP, despite its incongruity, is very meaningful. Practice opens our minds and forces us to see the world without distorted ideas and concepts.
*WPP helps develop attention, awareness, and the actualization of spontaneously acting in a way that fits the situation. It also develops patience and awareness skills.
*WPP is neither conscious endeavor or introspection. The instant you hold a fixed view of the way things should be--you return to thinking.
*Be aware of clarity, yet let go of being attached to it. Clarity grows with practice.
* You are sitting with the WP and not striving. You are giving your full gentle attention to it.
* Having this experience takes as long as it takes. Each person is different.
* Self-conscious effor can create stress. Be present and alert. Nothing more, nothing less.
*When the thinking and imagining content of the mid comes to rest, the wandering mind disappears.
*WPP is not a goal or a journey. You are aware and attending to what is happening now.
* Unconscious images often arrise in the early stages of WPP. Observe them and let them go. Persist and persevere with a calm mind. Watch phenomena blip out. Bring your attention back if it wanders. Aceept that it happens. No big deal. Nothing forced--nothing saught.
*Nonconceptual experience is something to experience, not figure out. Let go of all your previous ideas and just sit with the WP giving it your full but gentle attention.
*Left alone the mind will go clear.
* Hydrate yourself and eat lightly. Sitting and nonconceptual experience are the same. You sit, breathe, and pay attention. Soon your attention is doing the attention. Nothing added and nothing subtracted.
*Let go of gaining anything. It is there and in there and over there. Pay attention.
* Many of you have had moments or long minutes with Satori in everyday life or in clearing. In WPP the wall of consciousness falls inward on itself. You are fully in the moment. Nothing added and nothing subtracted. Breathing and paying attention.
* Let go of thinking you'll get something. How can you get what you already have?
* Stopping your mind does not mean stopping mental activity. It means your attention follows your WPP. There's an old Zen saying: "When you sit, you sit. When you eat, you eat. That is all!"
*Allow the background awareness of sound to be there. It may be from this source that your consciousness erupts into a full bloom of Satori.
*In nonceptual experience only the present exists. It is not even the present. No this. No that. You are fully aware and free of duality.
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