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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.


Sam Harris Daily Meditations - Introduction
A short introduction to all of Sam Harris´ Daily Meditations, based on the frequency of words in his meditations You have to play this:...


Metacognitive awareness - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.02
About meta-cognitive awareness: being conscious and knowing , in real-time, what one´s state of mind is and how one is thinking etc


Cover the breath with awareness / attention - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.09.01
About a somewhat sloppy use of the terms "awareness" and "attention" by Sam Harris (and many meditation teachers). Culadasa is precise!!
Emotions, feelings....
Ok, this post is not scientific. It´s just about a curious difference of thinking in using numbers in India/Tibet and the West. The post...


Mirror mind - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.08.31
About Sam Harris´use of the most significant metaphor in Tibetan Buddhism: the mirror.


Finger snap listening - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.08.24
Meditation doesn´t have to be short. In fact, it can have the duration of a finger-snap. Those are micro-awakenings to being conscious


Afflictive emotions - Sam Harris´ Daily Meditation 2022.08.28
"Anger is not your enemy". How emotions are an integral part in Tibetan Buddhism meditation.


Appearing "as" - Sam Harris' Daily Meditations: 2022.08.27
The particle "as" has wondrous magical and transformative power. As in "the boy came to the party as a clown"


Impermanence - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.08.26
Impermance - as one of the fundamental ways of looking at the world (with unsatisfactoriness and no-self)


Already free - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.08.26
"The mind is already free" is a bit controversial. But then, a well known Wester therapist wrote a book with the title "Already free".


Equanimity - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 22.08.26
Equanimity as a stage of meditation. One Taste, Holy Indifference.... many words for becoming a bit more neutral and less reactive


Collaborative alliance: David Schnarch´s model for problem solving as a couple
How should one take decisions as a couple? From the I-point, or from the We-point? Here are three concepts that I like, and more...


Sam Harris and Daniel P Brown on Pattern recognition - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.08.24
Sam Harris And let your visual field appear as a totality, just as an expanse of colour and shadow This is a "deconstructionist" pointing...


Space and Mind - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.08.16
About the concept of mind (consciousness, awareness...) as limitless space, and its significance. With example of pointing out instructions.


Free books that I recommend highly
Daniel P Brown, Mahamudra Meditation-Stages and Contemporary Cognitive Psychology (Dissertation 1981) This dissertation is a free...


Helga Liné - a gorgeously svelte and classy redhead stunner
This is Helga Liné, looking back over her life: An wise old 91 year lady in an apartment in Buenos Aires, with a bright mind and a bad...


What I actually do when I meditate
This is me, meditating (not): When one visualizes "meditation" and goes by the public imagery in wellness marketing, one will probably...


The inseparable pair (1) of mind and events - Sam Harris Daily Meditation 2022.08.04
About various ways in Tibetan Buddhism to describe the non-dual unity of consciousness / awareness and its content / events

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