Stage 5. First Absorption
Stage 5 - First Absorption
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Today's Sessions
Same practice, same structure as Stage 4. Twenty to forty-five minutes, morning and evening.
Allow yourself grace when a morning or evening is genuinely missed. If it happens, do not consider that a defeat. This is part of the process. It is ordinary. Begin again the next day.
Log an Episode
If something happened during a sit that felt like contact rather than concentration - the sense of "me, trying to focus" briefly disappearing - log it here, any day, as soon as you notice it. You do not have to wait for the weekly question.
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The Weekly Question
Once per week - alongside your existing weekly synthesis from Stage 4 - answer this one additional question. There is no minimum length, and no penalty for having nothing to report. Many weeks will have nothing to report.
Did anything happen this week that you would describe as contact rather than concentration - a moment where the sense of "me, trying to focus" seemed to disappear, even briefly?
Describe it factually: what you noticed, how long it seemed to last, and how you felt coming out of it. Do not interpret it. Just describe it.