Re: Natural Awareness meditation
Originally Posted by
Spiritualseeker
Namaste,
I am wanting to know the origin of Natural Awareness meditation (if it can be even traced back). I am wondering if there is any scripture that mentions it. Natural Awareness meditation is just as it sounds, the natural awareness of present moment experience. One could be sitting and attention goes to the feeling of air on the skin. A feeling of energy in the hands might next arise in ones awareness, or perhaps a thought arises. The whole practice is a non-doing or a non-meditation meditation. It is effortless in that you do absolutely nothing. You simply watch anything that comes up. Sometimes the mind through this will calm on its own due to the watching of whatever appears in ones awareness. Does anyone know of the origin of this?
Om Namah Shivaya
Surely, theravada or original sutra buddhism, in the form you describe. Classical hindu yoga is transcendental and pranayams are focused on kumbhaka. Natural awareness comes in Hinduism in much sophisticated form in later monistic systems, but that's still not quite the anapanasati or vipassana - which you are describing. I think still now, this is essentially buddhistic.
What is Here, is Elsewhere. What is not Here, is Nowhere.
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