Thankyou Gallen,
That has helped to clear up a lot of questions.
I thought that opening the Third Eye was a process which had to be done with help. I read a post on this forum a long time ago when the writer said that Master Lin had opened his Third Eye on a level 3/4 retreat.
I am not very good at viualising and in my meditations I don't see the flowers, fields and water that Master Lin describes but I do see some colours, mainly a light gold, a deep purple/blue and some green,which swirl about.
So you can understand my amazement when suddenly I started seeing very clearly a big eye looking right at me. It was a bit of a shock but I accepted it and it keeps appearing . This led me to feel that perhaps I had to find out more, then I remembered the post and thought that maybe it was a prompt to open the Third Eye.
I will do as you suggest and keep on with my SFQ exercise and meditation and try to reach the emptiness - which raises another question (which I posted before)as I find that I still feel the energy rushing up from the balls of my feet, often very strongly when doing SFQ. This makes it difficult to feel the stillness when there is this great bubbling and rush going on - maybe it is another version of monkey mind?. I think it was Iam2 who said that you can reach a point when you cease to feel anything but I haven't got there yet and I'm not sure if that is good or stagnation or whatever. However as everyone progresses at their own pace I guess there is no hard and fast answer to it.
Thanks again,
Love and light
Faune
