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There's no self?? Exploring Reality with Roger Thisdell
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There's no self?? Exploring Reality with Roger Thisdell

1 ON 1 COACHING - SHORT WAITING LIST https://www.davidnonduality.com/bookings-1 INSAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/davidmcdonaldnonduality1/ DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this YouTube channel/video is for informational purposes only. The information presented in this channel is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician, mental health provider, or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. #infinite #thisisit #nonduality #love #consciousness #enlightenment #whatis #awareness #freedom #spirituality #illusion #maya #thisisit #nottwo #infinite #unconditionedlove #buddhism #zen #psychology #advaita #reality #happiness #chakras #expansion #spirituality #ekharttolle #ramanamaharshi FREE 20 minute 1 on 1 Meditation Coaching Introductory Session (Optional) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejAlbhgH7VF4BMzqfCs6_8g3hjDx_v9vbOtaPuudlRwayJtQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 1 ON 1 COACHING - SHORT WAITING LIST https://www.davidnonduality.com/bookings-1 INSAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/davidmcdonaldnonduality1/ Getting real with Non Duality - FREE EVENT https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyM9vqLDnUIxNqhV5D-hSwNY2B1k_dDOZJRPZCNh6QtPQQJA/viewform DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this YouTube channel/video is for informational purposes only. The information presented in this channel is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician, mental health provider, or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. #infinite #thisisit #nonduality #love #consciousness #enlightenment #whatis #awareness #freedom #spirituality #illusion #maya #thisisit #nottwo #infinite #unconditionedlove #buddhism #zen #psychology #advaita #reality #happiness #chakras #expansion #spirituality #ekharttolle #ramanamaharshi 1 ON 1 COACHING - WAITING LIST https://www.davidnonduality.com/bookings-1 INSAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/davidmcdonaldnonduality1/ DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this YouTube channel/video is for informational purposes only. The information presented in this channel is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician, mental health provider, or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. #infinite #thisisit #nonduality #love #consciousness #enlightenment #whatis #awareness #freedom #spirituality #illusion #maya #thisisit #nottwo #infinite #unconditionedlove #buddhism #zen #psychology #advaita #reality #happiness #chakras #expansion #spirituality #ekharttolle #ramanamaharshi Private 1 on 1 sessions: Click Below! https://calendly.com/davidmcdonald9037/1-on-1-inquiry-sessions Monthly Inquiry sessions for investigating our true nature! Click the Link below!! https://www.patreon.com/Davidnonduality Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidmcdona.. . DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this YouTube channel/video is for informational purposes only. The information presented in this channel is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician, mental health provider, or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. #infinite #thisisit #nonduality #love #consciousness #enlightenment #whatis #awareness #freedom #spirituality #illusion #maya #thisisit #nottwo #infinite #unconditionedlove #buddhism #zen #psychology #advaita #reality #happiness #chakras #expansion #spirituality #ekharttolle #ramanamaharshi #buddhism #nonduality Monthly Inquiry sessions for investigating our true nature!! https://www.patreon.com/Davidnonduality DISCLAIMER: The content provided in this YouTube channel/video is for informational purposes only. The information presented in this channel is not intended to be a substitute for professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician, mental health provider, or other qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition Thanks to @rogerthis for sitting down with me for a fantastic conversation! You can find all of Rogers' Links below! https://www.youtube.com/@rogerthis/featured https://www.rogerthisdell.com/
Roger Thisdell on Centerlessness, Cessations, Defabrication, Valence, and Insight
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Roger Thisdell on Centerlessness, Cessations, Defabrication, Valence, and Insight

Roger Thisdell is a long time meditator who over the years has managed to increase his baseline of well-being to a level much higher than the norm. Rodger's mind now features a permanent sense of centerlessness where there is a lack of the sense of an epistemic agent at the center. He aims to help others achieve similar well-being, unperturbability, and freedom from suffering. Follow Roger: https://www.rogerthisdell.com/ Join the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Mu_Podcast Donations: paypal.me/lucasperry Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5VYkm1i... ApplePodcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucasFMPerry Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 3:15 What is suffering? 4:29 What is contraction? 8:12 Why does contraction entail suffering? 9:21 The relationship between truth and freedom 10:58 How do we defabricate experience? 13:57 Rodger’s spiritual path 15:21 Practices for defabricating experience 17:37 What are the stages of awakening 18:34 Different paths to the same thing? 24:23 What’s Rodger’s current experience like? 29:16 There is only negative valence and its attenuation 35:16 Does taking a bunch of MDMA not add positive valence? 37:35 The void at the center of the soul 39:18 Meditation instructions 46:37 How does insight work? 49:56 Insight practice on the sense of separate self 54:57 The will as a way of maintaining separate self 57:55 Cessation, true nature, and neither perception nor non-perception 1:04:35 Practicing the jhanas 1:16:25 Cessation and nirvikalpa samadhi 1:19:47 Is the void preferable to highly defabricated consciousness? 1:24:11 How does this all fit into the 21st century? 1:26:40 Using insights from meditation for architecting new minds 1:28:48 Immoral behavior as a failure to see the truth 1:30:23 Where to follow and find out more about Rodger
Andrés Gómez Emilsson & Roger Thisdell: Unbinding Pseudo-Spacetime
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Andrés Gómez Emilsson & Roger Thisdell: Unbinding Pseudo-Spacetime

Wherein Andrés, Roger, and I discuss indirect realism about perception, the construction of phenomenal time, qualia formalism, exotic phenomenal spacetime in psychedelic and meditative phenomenology, the effects of persistent subject-object nonduality on phenomenal spacetime and hedonic valence, and more! Enjoy! Form is like a glob of foam; feeling, a bubble; perception, a mirage; fabrications, a banana tree; consciousness, a magic trick... However you observe them, appropriately examine them, they’re empty, void to whoever sees them appropriately... No substance here is found. - Pheṇa Sutta (SN 22:95): https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN22_95.html Andrés' article on 'The Pseudo-Time Arrow', for reference and further explanation: https://qualiacomputing.com/2018/11/28/the-pseudo-time-arrow-explaining-phenomenal-time-with-implicit-causal-structures-in-networks-of-local-binding/ You can find Roger at: his website, where you can find articles, videos, and more: https://meditative.dev/web/ and associated twitter profile: https://twitter.com/meditative_dev and on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069819468309 and on Discord: RogerThis#8351 Andrés can be found blogging at: https://qualiacomputing.com/. Check out QRI at: https://www.qualiaresearchinstitute.org/ and the QRI Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1735260376685389 and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/algekalipso I mentor meditation in Shinzen Young's Unified Mindfulness system. If that or any of my ambling thoughts in long-form are of interest to you, check out my website: https://www.wystantbs.com/ and twitter: https://twitter.com/WystanTBS Thanks for watching and listening! May you be happy! May all beings everywhere be free from all suffering!

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