EOM & Awareness

["Jeudy, Olivier [AUDT]" <olivier.jeudy@...>]

Dear Friends,

I recently noticed a change in my practice/understanding of EOM. I would like 
to confirm that I am not venturing in the wrong direction.

Up until now I assumed that emptiness of thoughts implied a completely fixed 
mind, as if "crystallized", "frozen" by force of will on an invisible point. I 
think I assumed that the absence of thoughts also implied the absence of 
awareness, or at least its immobility.

However, during my daily practice of EOM, I noticed that I could somehow expand 
and move my awareness, still maintaining an emptiness of thought. I can focus 
my awareness on my body, or move it across the room, or seemingly expand it 
beyond the physical limits of my room.

Is this normal?!

Under these conditions, if I focus my awareness on, say, a physical object in 
my room while maintaining EOM, would this bring the perception of the essential 
meaning of the object I am focusing on?

Is it correct to assume that the absence of thoughts does not signify the 
"immobility" of awareness? Is it correct to say that one can maintaing EOM and 
still move one's awareness (ie. mental body??) wherever one wants to??

Thanks in advance.

Fraternally,
Olivier


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