Attention and awareness: confusion

A short overview of the necessary distinction of attention and awareness, based on cognitive science

Mirror-Mind, Ayahuasca, Buddhism: commonalities of experience

An example for the equivalence of a key Mahamudra concept ("the mirror") with a mystic Ayahuasca experience

Meditation automation - a Mahamudra concept

Meditation and automation - how is this supposed to fit together=

Ocean and Wave - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2023.01.08

The Ocean and Wave metaphor: Sam Harris exceptionally uses a traditional pointing out metaphor: Ocean and Wave, the most famous of all.

Limitless space - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2023.01.05

Another lesson on the limitlessness of inner space of awareness. And of the perfection of the moment: Nothing to improve.

Breathe/receive - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.30

Breath like you hear, in "receiving" mode

The Self appears too (2) - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.28

Sam Harris Where is the Self, if every sign of it is appearing in consciousness? Today's meditation contains a statement / question that...

The Self appears too (1) - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.20

How the sense of being a Self is no other than an appearance in consciousness- like a mosquito bite.

References and resources (books, podcasts, articles etc)

This is the list of reading and listening stuff that goes into the blog. As of the time of writing this, there is more which not yet...

Steering and staying - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.18

About two fundamental skills in concentration meditation: steering attention and redirecting it when needed, and staying on the object

Check your attitude - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.14

A pushy instruction for equanimity

Comparing AI: iGirl versus OpenAI

Testing AI implementations on topics like family planning, cooking and marrying a donkey

Non-meditation - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.12

Eine Meditation zur Nicht-Meditation: eine der höchsten Stufen der Meditation in Daniel P Brown´s "Stages of Mahamudra Meditation"

Embodiment - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.07

How Sam Harris uses "embodiment" as a tool to support search operations

Dropping the Self - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.03

Instructions about dropping the sense of a center of awareness / attention, and an explanation

Localisation - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.12.01

A series of exercises to demonstrate how and where consciousness / attention seem to be localised within the body, usually the head

Meditation errors - Royal Seal of Mahamudra II

The following text explains the typical misconceptions about meditation, as seen from Mahamudra . The listing is from "The Royal Seal...

Consciousness is changeless - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.11.28

Noticing that consciousness itself is unchanged by experience. Changeless, timeless, boundless....

Sam Harris Wordcloud 2022.11.11

Sam Harris´ meditation teaching in the Daily Meditations: Wisdom and Compassion

Some of the general features that describe Sam Harris meditations: abstraction, building blocks, avoiding too Buddhist terms...

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