Cattāri Brahmavihārā

Last night, after the Dhamma talk, there was a discussion about the breath technique the group practices. Although the details got pretty technical there was one major thing I took away from it and it was simply that we need to use our imaginative faculties during meditation. Because we need to fabricate certain attitudes we need to be willing to imagine what ease might feel like or what the texture of a cleansing breath might be. Rather than being a dry exercise doing something that we imagine is bare attention practice (where, in fact, wse are simply pushing our active role out of our field of awareness) it seems that the right practice is much more creatie than I ever imagined. Granted, it is no less hard but it has surely changed my idea of the practice.