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Gurbani (94-109)
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Ashtpadi (129-130)
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Bara Maha (133-136)
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Gurbani (151-185)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਆਸਾ | Raag Aasaa
Gurbani (347-348)
Chaupaday (348-364)
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Kaafee (365-409)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਗੂਜਰੀ | Raag Goojaree
Gurbani (489-503)
Ashtpadiyan (503-508)
Vaar Gujari (508-517)
Vaar Gujari (517-526)
ਰਾਗੁ ਦੇਵਗੰਧਾਰੀ | Raag Dayv-Gandhaaree
Gurbani (527-536)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਿਹਾਗੜਾ | Raag Bihaagraa
Gurbani (537-556)
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Gurbani (557-564)
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Chhant (565-575)
Ghoriaan (575-578)
Alaahaniiaa (578-582)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਸੋਰਠਿ | Raag Sorath
Gurbani (595-634)
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Gurbani (660-685)
Astpadhiya (685-687)
Chhant (687-691)
Bhagat Bani (691-695)
ਰਾਗੁ ਜੈਤਸਰੀ | Raag Jaitsree
Gurbani (696-703)
Chhant (703-705)
Vaar Jaitsaree (705-710)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਟੋਡੀ | Raag Todee
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ਰਾਗੁ ਤਿਲੰਗ | Raag Tilang
Gurbani (721-727)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਸੂਹੀ | Raag Suhi
Gurbani (728-750)
Ashtpadiyan (750-761)
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Suchajee (762)
Gunvantee (763)
Chhant (763-785)
Vaar Soohee (785-792)
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Gurbani (795-831)
Ashtpadiyan (831-838)
Thitteen (838-840)
Vaar Sat (841-843)
Chhant (843-848)
Vaar Bilaaval (849-855)
Bhagat Bani (855-858)
ਰਾਗੁ ਗੋਂਡ | Raag Gond
Gurbani (859-869)
Ashtpadiyan (869)
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Dakhnee (929-938)
Sidh Gosat (938-946)
Vaar Ramkalee (947-968)
ਰਾਗੁ ਨਟ ਨਾਰਾਇਨ | Raag Nat Narayan
Gurbani (975-980)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਲੀ ਗਉੜਾ | Raag Maalee Gauraa
Gurbani (984-988)
Bhagat Bani (988)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਾਰੂ | Raag Maaroo
Gurbani (889-1008)
Ashtpadiyan (1008-1014)
Kaafee (1014-1016)
Ashtpadiyan (1016-1019)
Anjulian (1019-1020)
Solhe (1020-1033)
Dakhni (1033-1043)
ਰਾਗੁ ਤੁਖਾਰੀ | Raag Tukhaari
Bara Maha (1107-1110)
Chhant (1110-1117)
ਰਾਗੁ ਕੇਦਾਰਾ | Raag Kedara
Gurbani (1118-1123)
Bhagat Bani (1123-1124)
ਰਾਗੁ ਭੈਰਉ | Raag Bhairo
Gurbani (1125-1152)
Partaal (1153)
Ashtpadiyan (1153-1167)
ਰਾਗੁ ਬਸੰਤੁ | Raag Basant
Gurbani (1168-1187)
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Vaar Basant (1193-1196)
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Gurbani (1197-1200)
Partaal (1200-1231)
Ashtpadiyan (1232-1236)
Chhant (1236-1237)
Vaar Saarang (1237-1253)
ਰਾਗੁ ਮਲਾਰ | Raag Malaar
Gurbani (1254-1293)
Partaal (1265-1273)
Ashtpadiyan (1273-1278)
Chhant (1278)
Vaar Malaar (1278-91)
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ਰਾਗੁ ਕਾਨੜਾ | Raag Kaanraa
Gurbani (1294-96)
Partaal (1296-1318)
Ashtpadiyan (1308-1312)
Chhant (1312)
Vaar Kaanraa
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<blockquote data-quote="muddymick" data-source="post: 187030" data-attributes="member: 14492"><p>The meditations I was practising at the time were prescribed by Lord Buddha so I think they will qualify for the reasons of the thread.</p><p></p><p>The meditations used were Anapanasati (mindfulness of breathing) and Vipassana (seeing clearly)</p><p></p><p>No mental gymnastics, mantras, prayers, convoluted visualisations of any sort was used. Just observation of the mind/body.</p><p></p><p>I was away from distractions and following a strict moral, and behavioural code at the time. Just the usual injunctions of no idle words, no lying, no stealing (taking anything that is not freely given) no sexual misconduct, no taking of any drugs including any intoxicants. No fancy adornments (simple clothes and no jewellery) no high or luxuriant beds. No food after 12.00 midday (no meat or dairy).</p><p></p><p>For the first 4 days I practised anapanasati concentrating on my breath (you can find the techniques online if you want detail) I was doing this at various sittings during the day from the first at about 6.00am to the last at about 9.00 to 9.30pm. In total I was attempting to meditate for about 8 hrs a day (this was a retreat, I would not normally give so much time to it due to my other commitments) although if one could commit enough one could sit in meditation for approx 13 hrs per day at this retreat.</p><p></p><p>On the Fourth day about half way through I swapped from anapanasati to vipassana. Very soon my experience deepened. How I had been observing the body with a mixture of feeling and thought (obviously with some mental images) seemed to alter in quality!</p><p></p><p>I am sorry for my clumsiness of language. My focal attention seemed to become super deep and super stable where I could follow a very small bodily or mental formation from its birth to its death.</p><p></p><p>Each stage was seamless and deepened an already 'trans-personal or numinous experience' the sounds of my body and those outside became thunderous roars if I concentrated on them, I could pinpoint and listen to another's breath or pulse across the room and follow it, or listen to a sparrows song outside with absolute sweet clarity. With the changing of focus I could listen rapt to minute detail or listen in awe to the symphony of life...it was the greatest sound/ sounds deeper, with more texture and more emotion than any sounds had ever evoked previously.</p><p></p><p>In tandem with the sound was light. The mental images became absolutely clear and amazingly vivid. Not only could I hear the minute details of my breath or heart etc but I could see them suffused by light. The mental formations and bodily functions where there to see in vivid colours. The quality of this light was the same as the sounds, it was deeper richer, more real than previous experiences. The light that constituted my body and mental formations was suffused with this light and they seemed constituted by this light. Although I could see and focus on phenomena with discernment. I could see and feel and hear not only myself, my body, my thoughts and my emotions, but the experience was more total than that, I could also hear, and taste and feel. There was an element of Synesthesia.</p><p></p><p>I was suffused by this light and sound (I was made of light and sound) that was perfect, the absolute rightness of creation.</p><p>The process deepened where the light and sound became so all consuming that I began to feel a calm, wondrous, awe like ecstasy of love and compassion. Because the light and sound suffused all phenomena outside and in as this experience deepened the edges of what and who I am and what is not me disintegrated. Or should I say they were still there, but irrelevant as I was part and parcel of a bigger, wider, deeper experience that was made from light and sound and feeling. For me I experienced creation directly not through the filter of self and other. An integrated experience!</p><p>The universe I could see was constituted of sound and light vibrating in harmony and changing, ever changing. </p><p></p><p>Suffice to say I was in this experience (I don't have a clue how long) I slowly by degree became aware of a more mundane experience, but still suffused by light and deeper including sounds. I got up from my meditation cushions and walked into the garden.....I realised tears must have been streaming down my face. I looked around listening to the wind in the trees, my heart beating, the birds singing and somewhere in the distance the traffic whizzing along. I looked with fresh eyes in wonderment and love for all I was seeing and drank in its beautiful expression through sound and light. I was no longer in a deep absorption. But colours and sound were perfect and real and an expression of profound rightness and love. That I was an intrinsic experiential part of. Then I ate an apple..................and it was very tasty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muddymick, post: 187030, member: 14492"] The meditations I was practising at the time were prescribed by Lord Buddha so I think they will qualify for the reasons of the thread. The meditations used were Anapanasati (mindfulness of breathing) and Vipassana (seeing clearly) No mental gymnastics, mantras, prayers, convoluted visualisations of any sort was used. Just observation of the mind/body. I was away from distractions and following a strict moral, and behavioural code at the time. Just the usual injunctions of no idle words, no lying, no stealing (taking anything that is not freely given) no sexual misconduct, no taking of any drugs including any intoxicants. No fancy adornments (simple clothes and no jewellery) no high or luxuriant beds. No food after 12.00 midday (no meat or dairy). For the first 4 days I practised anapanasati concentrating on my breath (you can find the techniques online if you want detail) I was doing this at various sittings during the day from the first at about 6.00am to the last at about 9.00 to 9.30pm. In total I was attempting to meditate for about 8 hrs a day (this was a retreat, I would not normally give so much time to it due to my other commitments) although if one could commit enough one could sit in meditation for approx 13 hrs per day at this retreat. On the Fourth day about half way through I swapped from anapanasati to vipassana. Very soon my experience deepened. How I had been observing the body with a mixture of feeling and thought (obviously with some mental images) seemed to alter in quality! I am sorry for my clumsiness of language. My focal attention seemed to become super deep and super stable where I could follow a very small bodily or mental formation from its birth to its death. Each stage was seamless and deepened an already 'trans-personal or numinous experience' the sounds of my body and those outside became thunderous roars if I concentrated on them, I could pinpoint and listen to another's breath or pulse across the room and follow it, or listen to a sparrows song outside with absolute sweet clarity. With the changing of focus I could listen rapt to minute detail or listen in awe to the symphony of life...it was the greatest sound/ sounds deeper, with more texture and more emotion than any sounds had ever evoked previously. In tandem with the sound was light. The mental images became absolutely clear and amazingly vivid. Not only could I hear the minute details of my breath or heart etc but I could see them suffused by light. The mental formations and bodily functions where there to see in vivid colours. The quality of this light was the same as the sounds, it was deeper richer, more real than previous experiences. The light that constituted my body and mental formations was suffused with this light and they seemed constituted by this light. Although I could see and focus on phenomena with discernment. I could see and feel and hear not only myself, my body, my thoughts and my emotions, but the experience was more total than that, I could also hear, and taste and feel. There was an element of Synesthesia. I was suffused by this light and sound (I was made of light and sound) that was perfect, the absolute rightness of creation. The process deepened where the light and sound became so all consuming that I began to feel a calm, wondrous, awe like ecstasy of love and compassion. Because the light and sound suffused all phenomena outside and in as this experience deepened the edges of what and who I am and what is not me disintegrated. Or should I say they were still there, but irrelevant as I was part and parcel of a bigger, wider, deeper experience that was made from light and sound and feeling. For me I experienced creation directly not through the filter of self and other. An integrated experience! The universe I could see was constituted of sound and light vibrating in harmony and changing, ever changing. Suffice to say I was in this experience (I don't have a clue how long) I slowly by degree became aware of a more mundane experience, but still suffused by light and deeper including sounds. I got up from my meditation cushions and walked into the garden.....I realised tears must have been streaming down my face. I looked around listening to the wind in the trees, my heart beating, the birds singing and somewhere in the distance the traffic whizzing along. I looked with fresh eyes in wonderment and love for all I was seeing and drank in its beautiful expression through sound and light. I was no longer in a deep absorption. But colours and sound were perfect and real and an expression of profound rightness and love. That I was an intrinsic experiential part of. Then I ate an apple..................and it was very tasty. [/QUOTE]
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