Losing Oneself

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  • nonduality meditation

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    I thought I’d post this transcription of a meditation by Sam Harris (from his Waking Up app called The feeling of awareness. It quite clearly diambiguates awareness/consciousness from the feeling of a self or a ‘you’. The original meditation is at https://dynamic.wakingup.com/daily/DA07B1E and I post the transcript below without permission. Okay just sit comfortably and…

  • part of the experience

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    Here’s Roger Linden from his website The Elusive Obvious on the nature of experience and the self: What is assumed to be at the heart of all experience, namely that I have to be there experiencing it, it’s not what’s happening. It’s not you who is experiencing reading these words, the experience is of you…

  • the ordinary self and nonduality

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    To the ordinary self, NDA appears as an object of sorts, something one might want to experience or as a capacity one might want to have. To NDA, however, the ordinary self and its constituting processes, to the extent that they can be phenomenally accessed, appear as contents within its space.[1] – Josipovic and Miskovi In…

  • nonduality

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    Simon Ellis
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    Nonduality “encompasses a unified experience in which the boundaries between self and environment dissolve”.[1] It is when subject and object are unified. It is also known as consciousness-as-such [2] and in Asian contemplative traditions it is variously known as pure consciousness, pure awareness, nondual awareness (NDA), rigpa, timeless or choiceless awareness, being-awareness-bliss, the Self, the…

  • non dual awareness can co-occur with any content

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    Zoran Josipovic is a cognitive and affective neuroscientist who founded the Nonduality Institute with Judith Blackstone. Here’s Josipovic with Vladimir Miskovic: NDA [non dual awareness] can co-occur with any content, whether perceptual, affective, or cognitive, which appears in it, so to speak, like an image in a mirror. – Josipovic, Z. and Miskovic, V. (2020)…

  • immersed, embodied awareness that is entirely fluid

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    Here’s Jay Garfield from his book Losing Ourselves: … the focused attention of the expert is entirely on the task at hand and on the goals to be accomplished through that task. It is immersed, embodied awareness, and awareness that is entirely fluid, adjusting to the ever-changing demands of the task at hand. Nothing resembling…