Understanding the Right Way to Achieve Relaxation : หน้า 102/200

How Do You Know Whether You’re Doing It the Right Way? If you’re doing it the right way according to the right Knowledge (Vijja), your body will feel relaxed and at ease. Your mind will also feel relaxed and at ease. Even if you may not see anything at this stage, you’ll feel content with the feeling that you have. You’ll feel open, spacious, free and relaxed. This is the first reward that you’ll receive when you do this the right way. Maintain this relaxed state of body and mind calmly, easily, relaxingly and continuously. Soon there’ll be more rewards, that is, your body and your mind will feel further-more relaxed, so relaxed that your body will feel light, spacious and expansive. You’ll feel as if your body has dissipated and disappeared into the environment, as if you no longer have your physical body, as if your body has become the air that is subtle and purified, and the stream of happiness and purity has come to take its place. And your body and your mind will become furthermore relaxed. Your mind will become still, free of all thoughts. This is the kind of feeling that you’ve never experienced before. The mind that is free of all thoughts is much more pleasing than one that is busy with thoughts. Maintain this state of mind continuously. Soon more of this reward will come your way. Your body will feel even lighter and more spacious. Here, you’ll begin to understand the words “light body-light mind” in a more meaningful way. You’ll want to hold on to this pleasant state of mind for as long as you can.