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White Skeleton Visualization

1. The document provides detailed instructions for practicing a skeleton visualization meditation technique. It involves imagining stripping away one's flesh and organs to reveal an illuminated skeleton, then visualizing each bone individually while referring to a skeleton model. 2. The purpose is to generate a stable concentration field and smooth chi flows in the body by visualizing the whole skeleton simultaneously. Various visualization tricks can be used to help the process. 3. Once the full skeleton visualization is stable, the bones turn to dust and blow away, leaving an empty mental state free of any visualization. Remaining in this state of emptiness without physical attachments can lead to entering a meditative absorption known as samadhi.

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White Skeleton Visualization

1. The document provides detailed instructions for practicing a skeleton visualization meditation technique. It involves imagining stripping away one's flesh and organs to reveal an illuminated skeleton, then visualizing each bone individually while referring to a skeleton model. 2. The purpose is to generate a stable concentration field and smooth chi flows in the body by visualizing the whole skeleton simultaneously. Various visualization tricks can be used to help the process. 3. Once the full skeleton visualization is stable, the bones turn to dust and blow away, leaving an empty mental state free of any visualization. Remaining in this state of emptiness without physical attachments can lead to entering a meditative absorption known as samadhi.

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Here are the detailed instructions for the how to

practice the skeleton visualization technique:


1. First assume a comfortable sitting meditation posture, and in front of you
place a small model of a human skeleton, or a picture of a skeleton from a
book for reference purposes.

2. Next close your eyes, and joyfully imagine that you give away your flesh
and organs to other sentient beings, by stripping them off your body, so as to
repay any debt you may owe to them. This offering of all your flesh need not
take minutes, but can be mentally imagined as happening instantly. It
depends upon the needs of the practitioner whether they wish to envision
flesh (or dirty chi) in particular regions being stripped away. After all your
flesh is gone, imagine youre just a skeleton of white bones sitting there in
your meditation position.

3. Starting with your left big toe, imagine that you can see the toe bone
clearly and shining brightly with a white light. Then imagine the rest of your
toes on your left foot shining with a white light as well. After visualizing all
your left toes, visualize all your right toes. Next finish visualizing the rest of
the bones of your left foot (referring to a picture or model when necessary),
and then your right foot. Next the bones of your left leg, then right leg, then
left calf and right calf, and slowly proceed upwards visualizing all your bones
until you can visualize al the bones in the body clearly up to the top of your
skull. I suggest you memorize your bones to help with the visualization. If you
are studying biology or anatomy for college or pre-med, this is a great
meditation to get into for that reason.

4. All these bones should be shining brightly with a bright white light. You can
even do many tricks to help visualize the bones such as trying to feel their
shape, rotating bright lights inside them, or caressing their external shapes
with visualized light as well. The number of tricks available to help your
visualization efforts are innumerable, but dont fall into the trap of focusing
on the tricks or becoming attached to them, otherwise youll fall into the
common mistakes of chi- gong and the esoteric schools. Youre trying to
generate a stable field of concentration, and smoothen the chi flows in the
body by internally concentrating on your skeleton; where your mind goes
your chi will follow, so this practice will help to even-out the chi flows of your
body because the whole body is visualized at the same time. Whatever tricks
you need to get there should just be used as assists rather than the main part
of the practice. Remember that you want to attain a stable, NON-MOVING
visualization of a white skeleton.

5. Once the skeleton visualization is entirely (or even partially) completed,


remain with that visualization, opening your eyes to glance at the skeleton
model (or picture) in front of you every now and then when necessary, until
the visualization is firm and secure and you can sense the chi of your bones.
In times your body may actually become warm around certain bones that you
concentrate upon, and this can be used for self-healing purposes.

6. When you can visualize your whole body in this way, and your chi has
become balanced and harmonized throughout your body, then imagine that
the bones turn to dust, and then blow away leaving empty space. Release the
meditation once accomplished so that you are only contemplating emptiness,
or empty mind a mental realm fee of any visualization. The skeleton
visualization was just a method for helping you to get to this state. This is the
state that matters, the purpose of the cultivation technique.

7. Stay in that resulting mental realm of emptiness without opening your


eyes, and try to forget any sensations or attachments to your physical body.
Remain with that state for as long as possible forgetting both your mind
and body--and in time youll enter samadhi. Heres the key point: you practice
this visualization to attain stabilization of mind, and smoothen your chi flows.
If done correctly, in time youll develop samadhi. Once you attain samadhi,
you must forget that you have any body at all, and let go of any attachments
to your physical body or thoughts or sensations to realize a degree of true
emptiness.

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