Meditation space

Has anyone tried this - or any aspect of it?

"Mindfulness is definitely in fashion these days. People everywhere report that it has changed their lives, and the scientific research on the practice is booming. But an interesting change is happening in the world of mindfulness. A different type of mindfulness – nondual mindfulness – is growing in popularity. Furthermore, trustworthy scientific people (like Sam Harris) are making incredible claims about it. They are saying it is superior to conventional mindfulness, that it gives you access to a profound form of happiness that is available at will, and even that it is synonymous with spiritual awakening and/or enlightenment! They also claim that this form of awakening can be learned."

P.S. Not 100% sure whether Sam Harris is a "Trustworthy, scientific person" or not. :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1082995

Search for and reside in the still point of the mind. This point lies beyond the senses and truth and light await the searchers who arrive.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1047595

From 365 Tao: Daily Meditations by Deng Meng-Dao

I started mediating and studying buddha-dharma when I was incarcerated in 2015 and sustained a daily mindfulness practice for three years or so.

I was released just before covid and my practice fell off during the pandemic.

Over the week leading up to father's day I had a breakdown and some of the mental health issues that got me arrested in 2015 resurfaced. At the tailend of the breakdown I put on a body scan and had taken a small dose of psilocybin. I had also been working with a Buddhist therapist who has mentioned something about resting in the space between the end of the outbreath and the beginning of the inbreath.

The bodyscan starts by anchoring to the breathing and I let my attention rest completely in the breathing. And as the guided meditation was finishing up I noticed a vibration, like a snore but in consciousness itself, this vibration. Coarse. And I understood this is dukkha. And in the next moment, at the bottom of the breath, there was a moment where this vibration was absent.

The birds were still singing. My body was still on the mat. But for a moment, the intense suffering I had been experiencing over the previous week, was completely absent. And the moment was most defined by this contrast.

I experimented with it over the course of the night and was able to repeat the experience. At the bottom and top of the breathing, but also right in the middle. And I could tell a difference between clinching (trying to make the skip happen by holding the breathing or holding the thinking) and finding the skip by being aware of and letting go of dukkha.

My therapist is on vacation right now so I haven't had a chance to ask her about it.

But I am curious for other people's thoughts or experiences.

Thanks

This is a great read. It clarified some stuff for me on non-duality, and dare I say that the instructions (on "the mental move") are effective.

Hello beautiful travelers. I just wanted to drop the link to this site here in our community. There are many talks hosted here that I find/have found essential on this journey.

If you’re interested, I suggest looking at talks from Tara Brach, Rob Burbea, Oren Jay Sofer, Jack Kornfield, and Sharon Salzberg to start.

If you’ve used this site before, please share your favorite talks and teachers in this thread!

I just wanted to say hello and that I'm looking forward to engaging in this community. I lurked over on the other site's community, and it was not always...helpful. I've been meditating every day for maybe a full year now, but feel like there is a long journey still to go. I hope you're all having a good day/night! (Also hoping I can see posts/comments in my masto app, fingers crossed.)

I find this an excellent book by the late ex-neuroscientist and meditation adept, that illustrates how the mind works and distils the core of Buddhist meditation into easy to follow steps - the medtiation practice, as always, is the challenge to progress.

I have some The Mind Illuminated guided meditation audio files created by a meditation teacher if anyone is interested.

Has anyone used the book?

Some very soothing meditations in varied styles. All available for free sharing under Creative Commons CC-by-nc-sa.

A lot of the people from the other network will come here sooner or later, so I decided to create a small calm place for all of us. :)

It's my first time moderating anything that has any potential, so I'm happy to receive constructive feedback.

Cheers!