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20 Post author: GuySrinivasan 19 February 2013 10:21PM

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 20 February 2013 05:32:40PM 0 points [-]

A meditation discipline called kasina is specifically about visualizing objects. I understand the idea is something like staring at a specific fixed object for a long time and trying to use that to develop a more vivid mental image of the object. I have no idea if it will help to build up visual mental imagery from scratch, but there should be detailed instructions to be found for the practice.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 20 February 2013 06:21:52PM 2 points [-]

I tried kasina meditation for a while. It was frustrating because my lack of visual mental imagery didn't jive with descriptions of how to practice. :)