Why do I rock/sway when people pass me meditating outdoors, and stop when they're gone?
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There is a sutta called Dutiyaanuruddha Sutta in which Sariputra's exceptional wisdom is pitched against the siddhi abilities of Anuruddha who was probably flexing some showmanship about his spiritual attainments. The outcome should be quite obvious: Sariputra won him over with his wisdom. Consequently, Anuruddha stopped playing games with these things, knuckled-down and applied himself with yoniso manasankhara (wise attention). He later went on to become one of the liberated ones.
Sujato translates Sariputra's key phrase as: "It would be good to give up these three things. Instead of focusing on them, apply your mind to the deathless.β
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Rocking and swaying is caused by the arising of Rapture (PΔ«ti) which is one of the 10 Imperfections of Insight and one of the 5 Jhana Factors.
If practicing Vipassana meditation just note it until it passes away. If it doesn't stop after a long time, make the resolution to make it stop by saying "stop" in your mind. It will then stop either after the first resolution or after a couple of them.
If practicing Samatha meditation just return to the primary meditation object, ie. the breath at the anapana-spot. Don't take either of the Jhana factors as an meditation object. It will not strengthen them but instead weaken them, thereby not leading to Jhana.
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