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The Middle Stage of Meditation
Episode 186
Mid-stage practitioners constitute perhaps 5–10% of meditators. This is the stage where awakening begins to stabilise. A core feature of this stage i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Early Stage of Meditation
Episode 185
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 imagi…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Three Stages of Meditation & Spiritual Insight
Episode 184
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
Episode 183
Meaning, meaningnless and ameaningful are three different words. Meaning and meaninglessness imply one another.Questioning the meaning of life is not…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
The Problems In Discussing The Meaning Of Life
Episode 182
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, 4 weeks ago
Exploring Personal Meaning: Why Are You Here?
Episode 181
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?
Episode 180
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
Episode 179
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, 1 week ago
Self & Other As A Developmental Achievement
Episode 178
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, 1 week ago
The Standard Paradigm Regarding Other People
Episode 177
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