Practical Meditation Advice
The most effective way to overcome both procrastination and reluctance and resistance to practicing is to just do it. Nothing works as quickly or effectively as diligence. The simple act of consistently sitting down and placing your attention on the meditation object, day after day, is the essential first step from which everything else in the Ten
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Interestingly, what you consider the start and end of a breath cycle matters. We automatically tend to regard the beginning as the inhale and the pause after the exhale as the end. However, if you’re thinking about the breath in that way, then that pause becomes the perfect opportunity for your thoughts to wander off, since the mind naturally tends
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NSDR (Non-Sleep-Deep-Rest) Practice for Deep Rejuvenation (14 mins)
youtube.comA helpful phrase to remember when dealing with distractions of any kind is, let it come, let it be, let it go. Don’t try to suppress it, just let it come into peripheral awareness. Don’t engage the distraction or focus attention on it, simply disregard it and let it be in the background. Then, let it go away by itself. This is a passive process. Th
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Let it come, let it be, let it go
To develop intentionally directed, stable attention, you must first have a clear understanding of its opposite, spontaneous movements of attention. Attention moves spontaneously in three different ways: scanning, getting captured, and alternating.
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10 Minute Non-Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR)
open.spotify.comEvening Gatha
May I respectfully remind you, life and death are of supreme importance.
Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost.
When this day has passed, our days of life will be decreased by one.
Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken, take heed, do not squander your life.

Extending attention and increasing introspective awareness
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My sense, based on personal experience and observing others, is that you taking to the practice depends on your ability to catch a glimpse of non-duality. Try it out, and if you don’t experience an opening in any way after some exploration, I advise to return to a “bottom up” approach, with my usual recommendation being Vipassana practice as it’s s
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