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Enlightened you may be by reading this page, ok I am still improving it, but that’s the intention at least. If you are not ready for enlightenment start with Meditation 101

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Meditation 101

Meditation 101

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Smile by Tara Brach (26 min) (I may have done this > 200 times in my life via Maria Popova

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Meditation 102 – Intuition pumps

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Guy : “Tanha is the cause of Dukkha” is such an insane sentence.

• I literally cannot believe it. Some guy figured out the cause of ALL suffering 2500 years ago and gave you a recipe to solve it. Developed a first-person science 2000 years before the west developed 3rd person science

Tanha Romeo Stevens

Tanha is usually translated as desire or craving but this is wrong and misleading. Tanha is more literally translated as 'fused to' or 'welded to'. It immediately follows the mental moment that you zoom in with the attentional aperture on something. It could be that a flower or an item on the shelf at the supermarket captures your attention, or you turn your head to catch more detail as you pass by an accident on the road. Many hundreds of thousands of such events take place in the course of a single day. With most of them attention then relaxes and makes space for the next thing. But with some small proportion you find the mind doesn't quite 'unclench' from the object or some aspect of the object. This tension aspect is why it is sometimes translated as ‘grasping’ which is closer. Imagine something you aren’t finished with being pulled out of your hand and you tensing your fingers to resist.

[Meditation advice by Sasha Chapin ](https://www.pawel.world/advice-by-1527d72d064080ef9b51c16e186b8cc1)

you are being meditated:

You are just sitting down and letting Awareness wash over you. You are being meditated by space and time, which appears to be unraveling you at a fundamental level. You're just surrendering "you" so that something larger can take over, something that is beyond understanding.

pretend the music is rain, and you are a puddle

consciousness feels more "river" and less "foil.":

It's more like there's a river, and your identity is an attractive piece of foil bobbing on the river. And, more and more, your consciousness feels more "river" and less "foil."

Opposite of scattered:

The quality that you’re looking for in most meditation is, I think, best described as collectedness. You can think of this as the opposite of being scattered.

If you make the wholehearted attempt to be thoroughly alive to your experience for one full breath, and you curiously investigate what this does for you, that’s much better than 20 minutes of grindy, homework-y practice that you’re not really there for.