Skip to main content

Violent shaking during meditation

 

Re: Violent shaking during meditation

Post by frank k » 

Akashad wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2023 7:13 amHi all,

Anyone knows why there is violent shaking during meditation.I've been staying with the Breath for 2 days off the cushion 24/7 + 1-2 hour sitting meditation and my body is violently shaking to the point where I had to stop meditating.Its almost like Parkinsons involuntary tremblings.I thought maybe I am just in a bad angle but I noticed even with a straight posture it starts trembling from within in waves then just violent waves all over my body..it's too much.Like an earthquake.I have experienced this before but stopped meditating for awhile and now that I picked it up again the strong vibrations are shaking me.

Anyone has any theory or idea why?

I don't shake in my normal day to day life only when I am meditating.

Thank you.
This is jhāna constipation, perfectly normal.
https://lucid24.org/sted/8aam/8samadhi/ ... index.html

Getting a proper mix of daily physical exercise with cardio, yoga, stretching, accupressure in problem areas, will help dissolve energetic blockages faster and more smoothly than doing only static meditation postures and living a sedentary lifestyle as most modern people.
Taiji quan + qigong, or a good Chinese internal martial art is going to be more effective, because you're learning to incorporate jhāna simultaneously with exercise movements, whereas people doing regular exercise and regular activities are habitually tense all the time (blocking jhāna and the shaking you experience).

Try different static postures as well, for example standing normally, standing with all your weight on one leg with other leg completely relaxed, having arms raised, etc., lying down in lion posture, lying down on your back, sitting in chair versus sitting on floor, etc..
Comparing how the shaking differs with these different static postures may give you some insight into where your major blockages are.

The fastest way to cure jhana constipation is celibacy, noble silence (passaddhi / pacification awakening factor with a minimum of verbal thoughts), and daily physical exercise described above.

The way to drag on the condition a long time, years, decades, is live like normal worldlings.
Indulging in sensual pleasures, sex, food, drinking, talking, socializing, partying, gambling, etc., drains your jhana battery instead of charging it up.
But indulgence in sensual pleasures also decreases jhanic force, so bodily shaking during meditation can also stop eventually because the jhanic force is getting weaker, and the current in your jhana battery is getting weaker so it's less force and less current pushing around your body.

Follow the 8 precepts though, celibacy with noble silence, builds up your jhana battery by increasing the intrinsic internal energy, and increasing the jhanic force of the currents. The jhanic force and jhanic current of energy will gradually dissolve all of your energetic blockages on its own, just as SN 54 describes with no detail, and shaking will stop, gradually smoothing out over time.
Then the strong jhanic force and strong current will feel like the four jhana similes of AN 5.28.

Follow the wordly way of indulging in sensual pleasures, you lower your jhanic ceiling to having occasional small fits of first jhana and painful bodily shaking instead of second jhana and higher.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Advice to younger meditators on jhāna, sex, porn, masturbation

Someone asked: Is porn considered harmful sexual.activity? I don't have a sex life because I don't have a partner and I don't wish to engage in casual sex so I use porn to quench the biological urge to orgasm. I can't see that's it's harmful because nobody is being forced into it. The actors are all paid well and claim to enjoy it etc. The only harm I can see is that it's so accessible these days on smart devices and so children may access it but I believe that this is the parents responsibility to not allow unsupervised use of devices etc. Views? Frankk response: In another thread, you asked about pleasant sensations and jhāna.  I'm guessing you're young, so here's some important advice you won't get from suttas   if you're serious about jhāna.  (since monastics are already celibate by rule)   If you want to attain stable and higher jhānas,   celibacy and noble silence to the best of your ability are the feedstock and prerequiste to tha...
Post a Comment
Read more

SN 48.40 Ven. Thanissaro comments on Ven. Sunyo's analysis

This was Ven. Sunyo's analysis of SN 48.40: https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2024/05/exciting-news-honest-ebt-scholars-like.html And here is Ven. Thanissaro's response to that analysis: I think there’s a better way to tackle the issue of SN 48:40 than by appealing to the oldest layers of commentarial literature. That way is to point out that SN 48:40, as we have it, doesn’t pass the test in DN 16 for determining what’s genuine Dhamma and what’s not. There the standard is, not the authority of the person who’s claiming to report the Buddha’s teachings, but whether the teachings he’s reporting are actually in accordance with the principles of the Dhamma that you know. So the simple fact that those who have passed the Buddha’s teachings down to us say that a particular passage is what the Buddha actually taught is not sufficient grounds for accepting it. In the case of the jhānas—the point at issue here— we have to take as our guide the standard formula for the jhānas, a...
Post a Comment
Read more

1min. video: Dalai Lama kissing boy and asking him to suck his tongue

To give more context, this is a public event,  * everyone knows cameras are rolling  *  it's a room full of children * the boy's mom is standing off camera a few feet away watching all of this * the boy initiated contact, he had already had a hug with Dalai Lama earlier and then asked Dalai Lama for another hug which triggered this segment  17 min. video showing what happened before that 1 min. clip and after, with some explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT0qey5Ts78 16min talk from Ajahn Acalo with his thoughts on Dalai Lama kissing boy, relevance to Bhikkhu monastic code, sexual predators in religion in general, and how celibate monastics deal with sexual energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2m0TcUib0 The child's comments about the incident in a filmed interview later https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2023/04/18/643eba5d46163ffc078b457c.html The child: It's a great experience It was amazing to meet His Holiness and I think it's a great ex...
Post a Comment
Read more