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Yeah…
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This is called “samādhi headache”.
There are two reasons for that.
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Mostly it's because
you're trying too hard.
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Relax, for goodness sake!
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Go to sleep, have a rest, do a
walking meditation, but don't try so hard.
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Number two is: it could be
that you're doing the breath meditation.
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And I had to take my
glasses off to give you the demonstration.
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Because when you do
breath meditation, most times people are…
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I’ll mention this tomorrow...
you focus on the tip of your nose.
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I don't know where that came from,
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that stupid
instructions, don't follow that.
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Because what happens
if you watch the tip of the nose.
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You got your eyes closed
but I'm keeping my eyes open,
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what you actually do – when
your mind watches the tip of the nose
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so do your eyes
as well and you go like this…
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(Ajahn demonstrates what happens)
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And that will give anyone a
headache after five minutes!
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So if people are doing breath meditation,
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if you could peel their eyelids up,
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you’d see they're cross-eyed.
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It's just the nature.
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Because whatever your mind watches,
actually your eyes tend to watch as well.
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So that's the problem there.
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So it could be because you're
doing the breath on the tip of the nose
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and it causes
your headaches, that's very common,
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or it's just because
you're trying too hard.