why experts suggest to think of black dot during meditation?

[sathyamoorthy56]

why experts suggest to think of black dot during meditation?

[naomi24]

I imagine it's a way of pushing all other thoughts from your mind. Just something to focus on.

[Khandro]

The objective of single-focus meditation is to clear the mind of all the inner chattering that we are all prone to, as thoughts and images arise you have to push then to one side and focus on the dot, or whatever. At first you may only achieve this for a few seconds, but with practice the periods get longer.

[beso]

I have don't meditation and never heard of the black dot.

We do it by focussing on the seven chakras as lotus flowers in varying colours and numbers of petals. Once I had a full on manifestation of the crown chakra as the thousand petalled lotus. Before that I didn't actaully understand what the teacher talking about.

Of course it was such a surprise that it didn't last long.

[birdie1971]

I love the use of the word, “experts”.