Originally Posted by
Aila
Shamanism doesn’t have any meditation techniques – not that I am aware of.
But – the worldview in itself is meditational and so is being in the Nature.
For example, going into the Forest… At first - at the ‘boundary’ you open up – still and empty your mind completely and then enter/tune into the presence of Totality of the Forest.
Opening techniques ….
One could use the Amerind-type of 7 directions: 4 directions plus up, down and the inner -> OPEN.
Or if one’s mind is fearful of the ‘boundaryless openness’ of one’s BEING or suspicious of evil lurking around every corner one could also use the Buddhist image of the Full Moon being reflected in 100 water bowls.
The waterbowlness shows you how to hold your mind neutral and still and the Full Moon could always be visualized as the purest aspect possible - God, Jesus, Holy Ghost or Angels to guide you on your journey through the Forest, Life situations …. whatever ….
So, there is an openness and surrender … You are Totality as well as a part of THAT Totality.
Gradually you will learn to use Awareness as a sense.
If anything out of the ordinary happens within that Space of Totally – you will take a note of and question … and take your ques from …
I don’t think hunter-gatherers could afford to live in conceptual ideologies – everything was ‘written’ on-the-spot - the here-and-now situations.
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