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**Sdinozes** · 11-04-2010, 05:25 AM

I am really happy to encounter this idea of looking for the spaces between mental phenomena. I have encountered it before, but now it has reached the tipping point where I can start practicing it properly. Looking for the spaces between words, between thoughts, between feelings. Focussing on them, encouraging them to grow. Very nice.

Ajahn Sumedho has a good skillful technique to experience this. He teaches to deliberately think in meditation. It can be anything so for example "I am John". He then teaches that, while being mindful, deliberately think it slowly but notice the space just before the beginning of the sentence, the space between words and the space after.

I found it quite a good way of developing a refined mindfulness

Note - The words and sentence dont matter its the space around them that does

11-04-2010, 05:25 AM	#10
Sdinozes Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 408 Senior Member	I am really happy to encounter this idea of looking for the spaces between mental phenomena. I have encountered it before, but now it has reached the tipping point where I can start practicing it properly. Looking for the spaces between words, between thoughts, between feelings. Focussing on them, encouraging them to grow. Very nice. Ajahn Sumedho has a good skillful technique to experience this. He teaches to deliberately think in meditation. It can be anything so for example "I am John". He then teaches that, while being mindful, deliberately think it slowly but notice the space just before the beginning of the sentence, the space between words and the space after. I found it quite a good way of developing a refined mindfulness Note - The words and sentence dont matter its the space around them that does
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