A complete list of Daniel P Brown´s own reading recommendations

If you want an AI generated 7 minute take of the topic! TLDR: The post describes Daniel P Brown´s warnings of "conceptual hardening", shows it in practice and relates it to his attempts to keep the teachings secret Dan Brown identifies a major risk to meditation: conceptual hardening Dan Brown identified "conceptual hardening" as a major risk to meditation. This major risk is a lack of pliancy of the mind - pliancy is the ability to follow the pointing out instructions

How an AI can develop a "shame based identity"

Often, I skip AI text and AI voices - I feel uncomfortable. For good reasons: it is "interpersonal neurobiology", as Daniel Siegel might call it. Google Text to Voice and Youtube simulacra But then - I was playing around with the new amazing Google Text to Speech (TTS) capabilities and wondering what I could/should do. I looked into it and decided, that there is a threshold: a synthetic voice - yes. A "copied" voice - no. This becomes more and more relevant as Youtube is flo

Our normal mind gives us only a tiny fraction of the experiences we could have. In fact, there are probably countless other worlds...

The exercises for the Predictive Processing Therapy

NOTE: This is a fun experiment with generating a new therapeutic approach from a single postcast by Lisa Feldman-Barret. Deconstructing...

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Transformed by Claude.ai : Browse down to the interactice "AI Agent Simulation" and change the speed to see the impact Source: ...

This is just the result of playing around with Claude 4, summarising 6 hours of the Guru Viking´s podcast for a group contribution. The...

A metaphotical picture for the Tokchik meditation as line fishing In a Facebook group on Buddhism, it was suggested that "dropping...

Humanising text Claude.ai surprised me: I asked it to "humanise" a perfectly human-written text even more, in several iterations, where...

Get an overview of Mamamudra (an experiment, using Google´s NotepadLM podcast creation facility)

An experimental NotebookLM podcast about the term "attachment" in Eastern Buddhism and Western psychological development theory

Audio version of the blog post on hypnosis and meditation

Dzogchen and hypnosis are related - they both use specific techniques to support change in expanded states

"Become space / become awareness! ". Easy to "know" this with psychedelics. Harder through words. So, understandably, Keith Dowman adds...

This is about how the Western psychological concept of attachment is related to meditation, as conceptualised by the Pointing Out the Great Way method of teaching (now no longer under this name). If you want to view a 7 minute AI generated, curated video The following diagram provides a high level overview of what is explained in the post: Attachment and Meditation At my very first meditation retreat, to my surprise, Daniel P Brown gave a lecture on psychological attachmen

The view of the Enneagram by Daniel J Siegel

Does it matter how one sits in formal meditation?