Date: 03/15/2025 03/16/2025
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Sara
Sitting Meditation
The Experience of Dissolving Bodily Boundaries
With deeper absorption, bodily boundaries may fade, creating a sense of openness or boundlessness. This reflects reduced conceptual fixation, not the disappearance of the body itself. Clear understanding maintains balance.
1.How Boundaries Loosen
1.Sensation becomes continuous
Local points merge into flow.
2.Attention loses fixation
No single area dominates.
3.Conceptual labeling weakens
The idea of “body” fades.
2.Common Experiences
1.Blurred boundaries
Inside and outside merge.
2.Expansion
Space-like openness appears.
3.Lightness or floating
Weight sensation diminishes.
3.Maintaining Right View
1.No surprise
This is natural.
2.No attachment
Awareness remains primary.
3.No forcing
Imitation disrupts absorption.
4.Practical Significance
1.Weakens body identification
Reduces clinging.
2.Expands awareness
Mind is less confined.
3.Supports insight
Facilitates observation of non-self.
5.Pitfalls
1.Mistaking experience for attainment
It is not liberation.
2.Loss of clarity
Drifting into dullness.
3.Resisting bodily return
Re-grounding is natural.
Conclusion
Dissolving bodily boundaries is a sign of deepening awareness, to be met with clarity rather than attachment.
