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Feel a delicious melting sensa tion as you surrender all excess muscular tension to gravity. Release tightness in the shoulders. Soften the muscles of the face. jaw. and m ou th. Open the forehead. particularly between the eyebrows. Relax all the muscles around the eyes. Let your body be still as it settles into p rogressively deeper com fort and ease. Apart from the natural movement of the breath. remain as mo tionless as p ossible . Keeping your sessions short makes it easier to remain still without being distracted by various sensations and urges to move.
My territory is separate from every� one and everything else. My body, sensations, mind, memories. " The Buddha declared that as long as we hold these aggregates closely, we will suffer. It's only a matter of time. You might go into samadhi for a thousand years, but it will come to an end. Samadhi is like inflating a ballo on-no matter how good the rubber, it will deBate. You can pump it up again, but eventually you'll be back where you started. The Bud� dha's brilliance was to recognize samadhi as being a necessary step on the path to enlightenment but insufficient by itSelf.
Collecting survey data. Introduction 2$ measuring behavior. and studying neurophysiological correlates. These attempts to scientifi cally understand the nature of the m i nd by mea suring physical processes are profoundly limited by their methodology. which guarantees that the mind will be found to be a mere byproduc t of physic al ph en omena. This conclusion is p reordaine d. Complementary Understanding Rather than competing with externally focused me thodologies. con templative science offers a profoundly complementary approach to understanding reality.