..續本文上一頁ere is an unpleasant gross sensation then the mind is more aware of it, because it is so unpleasant. But when you come to pleasant sensation, the time passes away and you don”t know how it happened. So whenever this pleasant sensation comes, come back to Anapana. You are aware, you are aware …

　　Q: For about three days now as I have been focusing on the physical sensations, I have been seeing visually, with my eyes closed, corresponding images and they seem to be coming more frequently.

　　SNG: Images of the parts of the body

　　 Visions

　　Q: Yes. Like flowing, glowing … doing strange things … and it is disturbing.

　　SNG: Whenever such visions come, don”t try to stop them because the more you try to stop them, you are giving them so much importance that you will miss your sensations. Nor take any interest in them. Just ignore, don”t give them any importance. Let them be there and you carry on with your sensations. Give more importance to sensations. They will fade away, automatically they will fade away. If you start giving importance to them, then the sensations will fade away. So give more importance to sensations.

　　Q: All the time when I am meditating, even when I”m not, there”s a thought going on ... I can feel all the parts of the body, but there is also a thought happening.

　　SNG: Thoughts, don”t worry about the thoughts. If you are aware of the sensations, then it will look as if you have got two minds. One mind is with the sensations, the other mind is chattering. Actually there are not two minds; it is the same mind coming here, going there; coming here, going there, such fast movements. It”s like two parallel lines of dots.

　　But because you have to come every moment to the sensation—when there is a thought, you come back to sensation; when there is a thought, you come back to the sensation—then this line of thoughts is making sankhāras, but the sankhāras are like a line drawn on the water, they won”t go deep. But if you forget about the sensation and you keep on chattering, having thoughts, thoughts, they will make such deep sankhāras.

　　So it is good that you are with the sensations, and keep on giving more importance to the sensations. Don”t worry about the thoughts, they will pass away.

　　Q: A couple of days ago, I did Anapana and I got vibrations throughout the whole body, awareness of the whole body. My question is, I seem to be able to stay more equanimous that way.

　　SNG: In every way! Whatever experience you gain, you have to be equanimous. At times it happens that you feel the whole body, the totality of it. Then you won”t have to even move up or down, you feel the entire body, sensations in the whole body. You can stay like this for two, three or five minutes and then after that again start moving.

　　You can”t stay like this for very long time because then you will be missing certain parts. For two, three or five minutes you can have the totality of the body and still you are equanimous. Then you start moving and you are equanimous. With every experience, equanimous.

　　Q: I was going to ask you if I should just practice Anapana to get that experience, to get that totality

　　SNG: No, Anapana should be practiced only whenever you find that your mind is getting agitated or the mind is getting very dull, very sluggish—not to get a particular type of experience. Never crave for an experience. Whatever experience you got last moment, you may not get now, you may not get for days together. If you start craving for it, then you are not doing Vipassana. Whatever experience comes on the way, you accept it, you remain equanimous. If it has gone, it has gone.

　　Anapana should be done only to sharpen the mind further.

　　Q: If I have a really gross sensation, then should I practice Anapana

　　SNG: Yes. If the gross sensation is trying to ov…

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