Sunlun meditation hard breathing

This technique of hard breathing is supposed to bring up a bigger amount of strong sensations than normal meditation does, giving the meditator the opportunity to cleanse the mind at a deep level.
Said Sunlun Sayadaw:
“The more intense the sensation which has been overcome, the clearer will be the resultant mind.”
But do not be fooled. What you see here is just a little demonstration.
Those guys are not going to meditate for long hours like they are supposed to in this tradition. The way they sit is much too loose to do so.
I visited the Sunlun meditation center in Yangoon a few years ago, and there is very little going on nowadays.
You should also know that, prior to his enlightenment, Sunlun Sayadaw was practicing rigorous awareness of sensations at the nostrils, with natural breath.
Hard breathing was brought up later on to help people to trigger strong physical sensations. According to this later practice, you were asked to do hard breathing for thirty minutes, and then to observe any strong body sensation, to let it become more and more intense, and to endure it until it vanishes.
However if you try to perform this hard breathing you will see that after half an hour sensations are not that strong… then what???
To bring our deeply buried suffering to light, we need to start our session by observing the natural breath and the sensations that manifest at the nostrils, precisely like Sunlun Sayadaw, until the piti factor arises (tangible body sensations marking a significant development of our concentration). Once well trained, that should take 10 to 40 minutes.
In fact, the more subtle the breath becomes, the more it challenges our concentration, the more you are bound to bring up strong negativities from deep within.
Then we need to switch to hand movements.
Yes, certain hand movements, performed steadily, will further root out of this deep-seated suffering and wash it away!
Everything will then come into place according Sunlun Sayadaw’s teaching.
Amazing how people get attracted by the spectacular to the point of forgetting the essence of the practice...
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