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Effort versus relaxation - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.19

About the importance of keeping a balance between effort and relaxation, intensifying and easing up to avoid agitation and drowsiness

Reading Stanislaw Lem's "The Invincible" (1967) in 2022

How Stanislav Lem got the details wrong in his future of space travel at speed of light

One Taste: From rock-consciousness to non-meditation

About levels of consciousness (from rock to human - Ken Wilber) and levels of One Taste (Pointing out the Great Way)

Intention to hold attention - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.14

Another nitpicking comment: the impossibility of following Sam´s instructions regarding the use of attention - a comparison with Culadasa

Inner child - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.12

A combination of compassion meditation and inner child work, and how it may not "work" for everyone

Lion´s View: Awareness of Awareness - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.11

About the key move in meditation to become conscious: turning awareness / consciousness towards itself. And the Lion´s view.

Two point breath meditation? Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.11

A nitpicking comment about a possible improvement opportunity: how to structure attention on breath more precisely

Emotion as energy - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.09

Comments and expansion Sam Harris If you feel any anxiety just notice that arise. Become interested in that emotion as a play of energy....

Sealing, nailing, hitting in Mahamudra - and emotional triggers in Western psychology

Catching thoughts as soon as they arise - immediacy and scope

Witnessing and non-reactivity - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.08

The usefulness of meditation to deal with triggers, and generally, to become more non-reactive. A redefinition of suffering.

Residual thoughts - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.07

About the tenacity of "residual thoughts" - those thoughts about the meditation

The snake´s head - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.07

The "lifecycle" of a thought in Tibetan meditation, the need to become aware of a thought ASAP, eventually at the subtle stage

Transitory experience - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.07

Comments and expansion Sam Harris And you think "well, there it is, meditation is finally working". Notice that inclination to grasp at a...

Luminosity / lucidity of awareness - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.06

About light phenomena in deep meditation. Are they real? With examples from Tibet, that resemble psychedelic experience

Mixing space with awareness: experience of non-duality

TBD. This post is still a mess. It needs to be merged with two others How to use imagination to generate a meditative experience of...

Mental health and purpose - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.05

This is about compassion and love (both are terms that Sam Harris studiously avoids)

Precious opportunity - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.05

Sam Harris implicitly references the Tibetan concept of "precious opportunity" - all the reasons why we can be grateful to live and meditate

Sense modalities - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.05

About sense modalities, how Sam Harris uses them (a bit imprecise here), and a little the Buddhist mind model as described by Culadasa

Just look - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.03

Looking gently, without too much effort. Keeping balance.

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