Distractions from contemplation

[Anirban657]

I have been contemplating for 10 minutes everyday for the past few months but I am not getting the results. Distracting thoughts come up and I am unable to keep myself concentrated. 

I currently use the do-nothing meditation technique. 

Please suggest how to improve my contemplation practice.

[Nahm]

@Anirban657 Make two categories on a piece of paper; belief and experienced. Put these things and more like them in one category or the other; born, will die, alive, am separate, am not separate, I exist, I don’t exist, I am awareness, I am not awareness  etc

Take 10 minutes for each item that you placed in the experienced column, and contemplate, one at a time.

More traditional style:

 

[Faceless]

Before i could ever contemplate anything their first had to be silence. Freedom from time ‘thought’ enabled the freedom to explore time ‘contemplation’ without time itself acting as a limit. 

In order to contemplate efficiently their must be a ceasing of time/thought. 

Distractions are movements of time. 

If you are like me (psychological time) must come to an end before moving forward. 

Check into it.?

Edited April 19, 2018 by Faceless

[Guest Quanty]

Fly.

[Faceless]

When their is no feeling as if you ‘need’ to contemplate creates a capacity for great contimplation. 

The absence of volition/effort closes the door of compulsive thinking. That compulsive thinking is the result of prepetual movements towards psychological security. That is the function of thought/ego. 

Edited April 19, 2018 by Faceless