On Feb 19, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Bhairitu wrote: > It doesn't divide the mind. It is part of a lot of other traditions and > helps for developing nirvikalpha samadhi (known elsewhere as UC). We > teach this in my tradition even with the technique for the general > public. However it is an "adjunct" to the usual sitting with eyes > closed in meditation.
Yeah, IME the opposite is the case, it unifies inward consciousness with outward consciousness. After one has some success in eye-closed samadhi (nimilanasamadhi), one then works on practices which help one discover consciousness vibrating as the external world via eyes-opened samadhi (unmilanasamadhi). Then you have to gain the recognition that both are one and the same. That's "bhairavi-mudra", being "inside" while gazing "outside". "By penetrating into Bhairavimudra, the yogi observes the vast totality of beings rising from, and dissolving into the Sky of Consciousness, like a series of reflections appearing and disappearing inside a mirror..."
