Re: The Third Eye?
hariḥ oṁ
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namasté
Many good pieces of information have been offered above.
If one gets distracted by various experiences and chases them as a child chases a stray balloon in the air, then effort has been expended with little results.
I have been taught that when these experiences come ( and go) we just don't mind them much. While enjoyable to experience they come and go like clouds in the sky.
It is as if one is walking down the street and looks in a window while passing a shop... we see something but continue forward to our destination - It is the scenery along the way.
For those new to the path, these events of light or sound or body sensations are new. They should be discussed or acknowledged , but seen for what they are. They come they go, the same way a shooting star captures our awareness in the sky at night.
Ask yourself - how do I feel, act, think after meditation with the infusion of more clarity and pure awareness in my daily experience. We want more of that clarity to spill into activity and to be stabilized.
Now that said, there are specific practices (upāya-s) called out in the Vijñāna Bhairava that include the attention between the brow.
The intent is simple - madhya¹ .
praṇām
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madhya - middle most; standing between two; this is where one finds turīya, the 4th.
यतसà¥à¤¤à¥à¤µà¤‚ शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṠśivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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