Throwing My Hat In The Jhana Ring
While on retreat, I entered a fourth jhana which had a white-out effect of something tantamount to what people report on 5-MeO-DMT,...
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Three Wells Of Equanimity
Equanimity born with power Through concentration we can dive the mind down into the first well of equanimity. This is the fourth Jhana....
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You Can't Spiritually 'Wake Up' - You Can Only Become Lucid.
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was...
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Meta-Awareness, Modes of Perceptions, Cycling Insight Stages, Super-Positions and Boundarylessness
The following is an elucidating and enjoyable exchange I had with Dor Konforty after he commented on my Nirodha Samapatti post. Dor is a...
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Let's Talk Nirodha Samapatti: Insights On Valance And The Supposed Ontic Primacy Of Consciousness
Starting with the thesis: I contend that those who have attained nirodha samapatti (NS) have a crucially informative insight into the...
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Halfway In, Halfway Out The Great Door of Being
For more context please read my previous article: 'Identity, God and Open Individualism' Imagine a great conundrum that people have been...
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Identity, God and Open Individualism
An essay I wrote, originally for Andrés Gómez Emilsson’s blog, Qualia Computing. I’m reposting it here with some amendments, though I do...
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Awakening At Dawn ¦ a poem on realisation
One night in long bygone times I awoke confronted by other minds. They pointed out towards otherworldly phenomena With a will and...
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The Two Noble Pursuits
And The Predicament of Sentients This article is a case of following one line of thought in a particular manner ad absurdum. Attempts to...
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Centrelessness, Boundarylessness Phenomenology And Freedom From The Cage Of The Mind
Caveat Firstly, does openly detailing the phenomenology of the later stages of awakening help or hamper people who are trying to remodel...
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Plate Spinning Eudaimonia
originally written in 2019 From what I can deduce, wellbeing is not like a grounded structure that we work on until achieved and...
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Maintaining Awareness during deep sleep — How to
In many spiritual traditions, you can read of people claiming that they never lose contact with awareness, even during deep sleep. In...
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An Enlightened Mind Has Done This: Two Types of Objectification
What are we doing in meditation in order to achieve enlightenment? Simply put we are both objectifying everything while de-objectifying...
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Evenly tending to the garden of your brain
Originally written in 2016 It is clear to me that there is no one best technique for training the mind in order to attain all the desired...
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Expansion & Contraction (the subtlest experiential distinction)
this post was written by Shawn Prest and me, originally for our website, meditative.dev. I am reposting it here. Contraction and...
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The Happiness Hierarchy
As humans, we can’t help but be constantly tracking our position within social hierarchies while interacting with others — it is too...
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Precision Bungee Jumping
originally written in 2018 Whilst at the Buddhist monastery in France, I noticed that the mechanic of attention in the mind has some...
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Mind Assigning
originally written in 2017 By something possessing a mind I mean not only is it conscious, but its consciousness is complex enough to...
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Martial Arts and Training the Reptilian Brain
originally written in 2013 The man who taught me Nippo Kempo, Luther, had a very refined teaching method that I appreciated unduly and...
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Attention Suicides (a meditation technique)
The practice is simple. Focus as narrowly and as minutely as you can on a particular sensation (I will explain in terms of physical...
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