"Real meditation"

Finally a description I get! Tks Sam Harris!

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(Apr 23, 2026 01:06 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Finally a description I get! Tks Sam Harris!

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Yes ,it was interesting and  well said.Essentially a kind of passive (non) activity


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_xRlojtDdE...IGxpdmU%3D

I like his metaphor of us being like the screen on which are thoughts and sensations are always appearing and disappearing. Or like the sky in which the clouds are coming and going. This whole sense of being an unchanging emptiness in which the movie of our experience is happening. A self? Or a no-self? Both and neither..The round hub of nothingness holding the spokes of the turning wheel together.

Sounds like just eliminating cognition as much as possible (identification and understanding of experiential content), which would be akin to reacquiring a baby's wonder at what would otherwise be the mundane and overfamiliar. Although babies actually have some innate and very limited conceptual apprehension of phenomena from the start. Or disabling recall of the past and inferences about the future, if it really wants to be about that stereotypical "mindfulness" context of focus on internal body sensations and restriction to the present. Don't know how much diminishing the model of "self" really matters, since the latter is going to tend to fall out of the memory dependency of cognition and reason and anticipation, anyway.

I was thinking last night how I love thinking. It's the most creative and purpose-giving activity of my life. I would no more give it up than I would driving. It's my preferred mode for being-in-the-world. So meditation, at least in this sense of experiencing a mental outsideness to being in thought, is to me just one more of many enticing doors opening up to the continued exploration of our infinitely manifold human experience.