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The Late Stage of Meditation
Perhaps 1% or fewer practitioners reach late-stage meditation, where awakening has permanently altered one’s perception.
Late stage says: “There is no…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Middle Stage of Meditation
Mid-stage practitioners constitute perhaps 5–10% of meditators. This is the stage where awakening begins to stabilise.
A core feature of this stage is…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Early Stage of Meditation
At the early stage, meditation is something you do. It is an activity during the day, set apart from life, distinct from the rest.
Awakening is imagin…
6 months, 1 week ago
The Three Stages of Meditation & Spiritual Insight (#134)
Episode 134
We tend to see meditation as a single spiritual practice experienced equally by all. It seems meditators sit, practice their technique, attend retrea…
6 months, 1 week ago
Meaningful, Meaningless & Ameaningful
Meaning, meaningnless and ameaningful are three different words. Meaning and meaninglessness imply one another.
Questioning the meaning of life is not…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
The Problems In Discussing The Meaning Of Life
The question "What Is The Meaning of Life?" is fraught with difficulties and blindspots. It's so tempting to overcomplicate it, to oversimplify it, o…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Exploring Personal Meaning: Why Are You Here?
Why are you here? How does personal meaning work? What questions can we ask to get to the core of our personal meaning structure?
This is a snippet fr…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
What is The Meaning of Life? (#133)
Episode 133
What is the meaning of life? When we get down to it, why are we here as individuals? Why does life itself exist? What is all this for?
I round off thi…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Necessity of Self-Other Consciousness
When we deconstruct paradigms like self and other, it's tempting to dismiss it outright. But self-other consciousness serves a clear function, and wi…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Self & Other As A Developmental Achievement
You have not always had a sense of self and other: you had to develop it during childhood. It is not a given, but a construct.
This also means you can…
6 months, 3 weeks ago