For those who enjoy such things, here is a selection from the 
Shravaka-bhumi of Arya Asanga on the five most important ideas in the 
cultivation of the supernormal faculties (abhijna). You may find 
something here relevant to sanyama practice.

Arya Asanga:

Among those, by taking recourse to the (four) dhyana-s, one 
accomplishes the five supernormal faculties. As follows: when that 
meditator has attainment of completely pure meditation (dhyana) –
whatever be the doctrine heard, held, and studied by him with mental 
orientation of the equipoised stage (upeksha) – he, taking recourse 
to that completely pure meditation, having oriented his mind to just 
that in order to master the supernormal faculties … there comes in 
time, there comes the occasion when his fruits of the cultivation, 
the five supernormal faculties, arise.

Furthermore, the person especially knowing meaning and especially 
knowing doctrine that way, cultivates twelve ideas in order to 
accomplish all the supernormal faculties … 

1)      Among them, by the idea of lightness, he is convinced that 
his body is light, like the cotton of the tuula shrub or cotton of 
the karpaasa type in a whirlwind. He, being so convinced, at that 
place dispatches himself by means of a mental orientation derived 
solely from conviction, as though from the cot to the stool, from the 
stool to the cot; likewise, from the cot to the grass, from the mat 
to the cot. 

2)      Among those, (by) the idea of softness, he is convinced that 
his body is soft, like silk or hair of fine cloth. By the idea of 
softness, by the idea of lightness, this idea of lightness which 
nourishing, fostering, is being fostered, attains great increase. 

3)      Among those, the idea of the (empty) space realm (akasha) is 
the idea by which he is convinced that his body has lightness and 
softness. If he wishes to go somewhere, whatever intervening 
corporeal substance creates an obstacle for going there, by means of 
a mental orientation derived solely from conviction, he is convinced 
that it (the corporeal substance) is space.

4)      Among those, the idea of conjoining mind and body is the one 
by which either he joins mind to body or body to mind, for which 
reason his body becomes lighter, becomes softer, more serviceable, 
and more radiant; and following mind, tied to mind, based upon mind, 
it proceeds. 

5)      Among those, the ideas of perfect freedom is the idea by 
which he transforms the distant to the near, the near to the distant; 
the fine to the coarse; the coarse to the fine; earth in water, water 
into earth; accordingly, with each one of the great elements, what is 
to be mutually effected at length. 

Thus with those five perfect ideas belonging to the cultivation, he 
severally experiences the diverse fields of magical power. Having 
become single, he exhibits himself in multiple forms, namely, by 
means of an idea pertaining to transformation, pertaining to magical 
manifestation. At that place, furthermore, he exhibits himself in 
multiple forms and becomes single, namely, by means of an idea of 
perfect freedom pertaining to magical manifestation and 
disappearance. He goes through the wall, through the hill, through 
the rampart, with an unhindered body (as though in space). With that 
he goes and performs submergence and emergence in the earth as though 
in water. Without sinking, he walks on the streams as though on 
earth. In the posture of folded legs, he ascends to the sky like a 
winged bird; or with his hands he strokes and catches these two – the 
sun and the moon – which are so great of magical power, so great of 
dignity, so great of splendor. With that body he makes a tour de 
force up to the world of Brahma. He does all that, to be understood 
according to circumstances, be means of the idea of perfect freedom 
controlled by the ideas of lightness, softness, space realm, and 
conjoining or mind and body. Here two kinds of tour de force by that 
body pertain to the world of Brahma: He makes a tour de force (a) by 
the fact of going, or (b) by a (magical) transformation as desired, 
from the world of Brahma downwards, of the four great elements and of 
any (= every) form having those (elements) as condition.
(end of quote)

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