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Looking at something is perceived like directing a beam of energy
Here is something very strange: when we watch another person who looks at an object, AND if we think that person has their attention on...


Merging world and Self - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.20
Breathing in the world, and breathing out the Self is a technique for "mixing" abd to bring to awareness any localisation


Blog disclaimer - About me
About me, and a few questions answered


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

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