About freeing oneself from past and future - and Tilopa´s 6 words of advice for Mahamudra meditation.

Meditation as a tool to find freedom / liberation from unpleasant emotions. Short half-life of emotions

Meditation can have self-oriented goals (eg wellness, health) or other-oriented goals (compassion, love)

About the boundaryless of "space" and how to overcome it

How Sam Harris uses techniques of hypnotic speech by splitting phrases in unusual ways. Similarities to hypnotic/NLP techniques

About the speed of awareness, limiting beliefs and "no path"

Another meditation to reduce reactivity. With a reminder that simply focusing on experience has a risk of getting lost in experience

The experience of the inner "flow" of mental events as waterfall, river, stream, water-fountaing, or sequence of mind-moments

Sam Harris Feel your body resting in space In a meditation retreat with Dustin diPerna of the "Pointing out the Great Way" foundation, he...

A general instruction how to use the Daily Meditations, in particular the "look for the looker" parts, and what to do when frustrated

Sam Harris points out the limitlessness of space. A comparison to the more elaborate instructions by "Pointing Out the Great Way"

Pointing out that awareness may feel to be located somewhere. And a sloppiness in Sam´s formulation

About the skill of "seeing" simultaneously one´s own awareness AND the emerging events (Lion´s view=

About how to mix and merge meditation into daily life, in particular "afflictive emotions" like anger

About the feeling of being located at a particular point and seeing objects out there - and how this must be overcome to get to freedom

"Space permeates objects" - a Buddhist and a scientific insight

This post mentions "meditation strategies". These need to be let go of in Dzogchen, eventually even meditation itself

Comments and extensions Do we really have free will? Sam Harris says no, and he is often attacked for it. Culadasa agrees with him,...

Today it´s just another Sam Harris wordcloud. The Daily Meditation didn´t give me any new inspiration what to write about.

I am taking snapshots of the evolution of Sam Harris´ vocabulary in the Daily Meditations of the Waking Up application. Unprocessed and...