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Hakalau In Zen - Yogi Explains

Summary

, 19 min

Hakalau, the peripheral-vision practice, set beside Rinzai Zen instructions for spreading out the vision and releasing fixation, read from Meido Moore Roshi's book. Covers how widening the gaze drives the right brain and stops mind chatter, extending it to all senses at once, and stories of perception's gears slipping, including divine hearing.

In this video

Teaches
Discusses
ZenFoveal and peripheral attentionLeft and right brainRight hippocampusMind chatterNon-attachmentReticular Activating System
Mentions
Dual and non-dualSamadhiExpansionHunaDownload PhaseLow-Idle-StateBhagavad Gita

Key moments

00:00Hakalau from a Zen perspective00:58A viewer's comment: Hakalau is taught in Rinzai Zen01:57Why Hakalau matters: fast access to the right brain02:49How to do Hakalau: one point, open the periphery03:48Test it on a frustration held in the heart05:02Stopping mind chatter mid-meditation with peripheral vision06:34The Rinzai Zen book: spreading out the vision08:04Zen instructions for releasing fixation, sense by sense12:55Hakalau through all the senses at once14:07Living it daily: insights, downloads, deeper meditation14:51Walmart story: the fruit pies breathe with the breath16:13Divine hearing across a busy street17:24Training access to the right hippocampus