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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…
4 months, 3 weeks 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…
4 months, 3 weeks 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…
4 months, 3 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…
4 months, 3 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…
5 months 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…
5 months 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…
5 months 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…
5 months ago
The Standard Paradigm Regarding Other People
We tend to assume that other people are separate from us and have their own, independent experiences.
Except these are highly questionable assumptions…
5 months, 1 week ago
Do Other People Exist?
Episode 176
We tend to assume other people are separate and independent from us. But what if this was simply a useful assumption or paradigm, not the be all end …
5 months, 1 week ago