You Can Draw!

On Page Seventy Seven, the earth kasina. Simply find a piece of plain earth that is reddish brown like the sky at dawn, then with a stick draw a circle around it about a foot across.  Then go!  Ready, go!  He says to avoid concentration on the characteristics of color or roughness but only the concept of earth.

He follows similarly with the water kasina, just get a bowl or bucket, again until the nimitta appears, up to fourth jhana.


I meditated on a stone, although less simply and far less well, for a year: Stonemeditation blog.