20 min
Maureen and Pierre talk about how much they love Sam Harris' Waking Up app!
What is meditation? What is it not?
Sam Harris demystifies a mystical subject and practice. Less soothing sounds, rustling wind, harmonic bowls, this app is more of a philosophy course that will liberate you from the control your thinking mind most likely has over you. Waking Up introduces practical steps in establishing a meditation practice, while explaining its deep mystery. Check it out.
About half way into the podcast, Pierre describes an experience of dropping into a meditation state which shuts off his brain from processing visual inputs. Kind of freaky, kind of cool.
One of the more powerful points that Sam Harris makes is deep meditation states are not something achieved at the end of a road of work or practice. They can be achieved almost instantly by recognizing a new reality, a reality wherein you are object not subject. A reality where ego disappears. Brain function is observed (one might say) instead of being put in control of interacting and interpreting what is experienced. When the brain / opinion / processing drug of perception is removed from interactions, we have an opportunity to grasp the possibility of an experiential reality, a reality where we are not the center. A book called, Having No Head by Douglas Harding helped Sam Harris glimpse this shifted reality of deep meditation.
Learning Conversation podcasts are about bringing resources to a broader audience's attention. While Sam Harris doesn't need our help on that score, we want to make sure you know we think this app is a gem! Check it out.
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