6:10 am One hour noting in bed.
8am 20 minutes silent noting on the bus
1:00 30 minutes silent noting with ISB meditation group. Not unpleasant, not pleasant. About halfway through, drifted into sleepiness (as I commonly do multiple times per sitting), then with no warning dropped into a state where it seemed there was nothing to hold onto. I felt an urge to somehow grab on but told myself to chill. After a couple of seconds it was over and I was left with a bit of adrenaline rush. Nothing seemed different afterward than before.
Today we meditated in the yoga/movement studio, instead of our usual conference room. Some people said they thought they'd prefer it. It's usually very quiet down there in the sub-sub-basement, but, amusingly, today, just after we began meditating, some workers came and started hauling stuff around and making a huge racket, banging stuff around really loudly! This ended just moments after our meditation session was over.
Felt wiped out and discouraged at the end of the work day, even more than usual. Spent a couple hours tiredly at the Northwest Girlchoir music sorting party.
10:30pm 30 minutes noting. I set the timer for 90 minutes, but after 30 minutes I stopped meditating due to sleepiness, restless legs, and general suffering.
Beth said that maybe the dropping experience during the 1pm sitting was stream entry.
ReplyDeleteLater Beth clarified that the dropping experience was not the fruition. The fruition probably happened right after the dropping experience, but, because there was no "I" to experience the fruition, I didn't notice the fruition itself. She said that she thinks this was stream entry because of what happened in the days before and after.
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