With mouth slightly open, keep mind in the middle of the tongue. Or, as breath comes silently in, feel the sound ‘hh’.
- Two doors, one site — the tongue. Mind is not in the head; it is wherever you focus it, and relocating the focus changes your whole nature (samurai trained to focus on the hara, two inches below the navel, fight timelessly and sense an attack before it is launched; Ramanujam answered problems instantly ‘from below,’ never calculating). Both parts bring focus to/through the tongue to drop from thought to no-thought.
- Keep mind in the middle of the tongue — Mouth slightly open as if about to speak (not as in actual speaking, not closed). Thinking is silent inner talking: the tongue subtly vibrates, the vibrations originating at its exact middle and radiating out. Bring total consciousness there, as if the mind has moved from the skull down to that center; the tongue freezes and thought cannot arise. You feel a sudden interior solidity/immovability — you have become part of the unmoved eternal (the still hub on which the wheel of the world turns).
- Feel the sound ‘hh’ on the inbreath — Do not manufacture it; feel the natural faint sound the incoming breath makes on the tongue. It is extremely subtle, needing acute, sustained alertness to catch. Inhalation only: exhaling carries you outward, inhaling takes you inward — the direction of the method.
- Follow the sound inward: tongue → throat (fainter, needs deeper alertness) → heart. When it is heard at the heart-center, mind is left behind. (All these sound methods are bridges: thought to no-thought, surface to center.)