August 2, 2023
From Counting Breath to Asking Who Am I
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A guided meditation session moves through progressively subtler techniques: breath counting, vipassana, body scanning, noting, and self-inquiry. The subsequent dialogues explore the addictive quality of the thinking mind, whether practices can truly cause transformation, the illusion of the known chooser, and how habitual emotions like anger may shield deeper feelings underneath.
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Anchoring, Sensing, and the Question
A step-by-step meditation moving from breath counting through body sensing to the open question of who is experiencing it all.
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The Mirror of Noting
A student shares her experience of a noting practice, describing both its power and its irritating quality, which leads to a discussion about the mind's addiction to its own activity.
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The Practice of Noting and the Illusion of the Chooser
A question about combining meditation techniques in sequence, followed by a deeper inquiry into whether practices can truly cause transformation and where the act of choosing really comes from.
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Falling Asleep During Practice
A student expresses sadness about falling asleep during the exercises and missing the session's content, and the teacher responds with reassurance about rest and practical suggestions.
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When Emotions Feel Stuck in the Body
A student shares the power of a recent meditation session and raises a question about compulsive emotions that seem to lodge in the body, becoming habitual patterns difficult to release.
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What Anger Helps You Not Feel
A question about recurring patterns of anger and what may lie beneath habitual emotional reactions.