>>11869955Mostly I've been focusing on my breath. Which is vipassana. For example, you can focus on your belly rising and falling. Your chest. The air back and forth on the back of your throat. Your nasal passages. Your upperlip. It's a playground.
You can't learn by reading. You have to be doing. Strive to notice and remove. You want to reach being "nothing". In the beginning, you might not even be able to pay attention to what's in front of you visually, if you meditate with open eyes. When you've come far, you'll notice "background radiation" in your sense of reality, that has been with you for many years and defined patterns of your actions and the sense of your identity, and that will dissipate for longer and longer periods once you start noticing deep things like that, that are low threshold and hidden like 0.0002 of all your input. You might notice masculine and feminine energies eventually, which should also dissipate. But it should be underscored that you are not trying to reach things, any will for results is also something to be noticed and let go of. These discoveries that people talk about is what bubbles up automatically once everything else has been settled. Don't think about what bubbles up even if it feels significant, you can think later when you're not meditating. You just want to settle ALL movement of your sense of reality to nothingness
I'm being a bit idealistic since myself having been at your stage and reading this post then, would be unable to recall or follow an instruction for a longer timeperiod, too many distractions. Someone who helped A LOT with direction was Mooji, who is filled with love for everyone:
https://youtu.be/xRlaJApiTe8Trying to learn meditation by using the mind and reading about it, learning about it, it's the far opposite since a large part of the goal is complete cessation of the mind. Beyond the breath, notice heat, tiredness, excitedness, laughing, coldness, dryness, all states and sensations you feel daily
