Waking Up with Sam Harris - A New Operating System for Your Mind
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Waking Up with Sam Harris - A New Operating System for Your Mind
One of the most important things to learn is how to separate awareness from thinking, and then we can see that thoughts and emotions are not the center of who we are. We then discover that awareness is the source of mind that brings the peace that passes understanding. One student said, “This is what it feels like to be open-minded.” It is our natu
... See moreLoch Kelly • Shift Into Freedom
Meditation is the practice of breaking one’s identification with thought and allowing experience, whether pleasant or unpleasant, to simply be as it is.
So meditation is not something you’re doing, really. It’s something you’re ceasing to do. You are ceasing to be distracted by thought.
Therefore real meditation is not a form of inwardness. It’s a fo
... See moreIf you do this long enough, if you tune this instrument on the meditation cushion long enough, after a while that does become more your default mode. You live in the room rather than living in the agitation of your conceptual reality.
Sean Illing • How mindfulness went mainstream
The teachings of the Buddha are about letting go and opening: you do that in how you relate to the people in your life, how you relate to the situations you’re in, how you relate with your thoughts, how you relate with your emotions. The purpose of your whole life is not to make a lot of money, it’s not to find the perfect marriage, it’s not to bui
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