Abhayakara

September 21, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 18:05:23 +0000

A new episode

September 14, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 16:38:55 +0000

A new episode

September 7, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Sun, 08 Sep 2019 16:49:45 +0000

A.H. Almaas came up in conversation, and people weren't sure how to spell his name, so I've included that here. Szolt and Tom recommended a practice for noticing emotions that has been written up on /r/streamentry: https://www.reddit.com/r/streamentry/comments/b008vn/practice_a_straightforward_doorway_into_presence/

August 31, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:40:32 +0000

A new episode

August 17, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:35:32 +0000

A new episode

August 10, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:30:09 +0000

A new episode

August 3, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:22:31 +0000

A new episode

July 20, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 16:12:00 +0000

A new episode

July 13, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:59:55 +0000

Unfortunately the recording for July 6 was truncated near the beginning—dunno what happened.

June 29, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 15:57:13 +0000

A new episode

June 15, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:15:10 +0000

A new episode

Meditation Meetup May 4, 2019

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:13:23 +0000

March 30, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:13:14 +0000

June 22, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:12:34 +0000

A new episode

June 8, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:01:26 +0000

A new episode

June 1, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 06 Sep 2019 12:56:23 +0000

A new episode

Audio for August 24, 2019 meditation meetup

Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:39:41 +0000

I'm sorry I've been so bad about getting these out. This was a fairly intense discussion because of the recent revelations from Culadasa, and several people whose questions were answered had connection problems that prevented them from hearing the answer; hopefully this helps. I will try to push through the backlog this week.

May 25 2019 Meditation Meetup

Sat, 25 May 2019 16:09:15 +0000

We started off with a very serious discussion about how Darth Vader meditates and ways of using meditation siddhis to escape prison, but eventually went on to actual meditation topics.

May 18, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 24 May 2019 14:44:16 +0000

May 11, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Fri, 24 May 2019 14:41:38 +0000

Meditation Meetup April 27, 2019

Fri, 24 May 2019 14:26:10 +0000

Meditation Meetup April 20, 2019

Fri, 24 May 2019 14:24:16 +0000

Meditation Meetup April 13, 2019

Fri, 24 May 2019 14:16:01 +0000

April 6, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Tue, 21 May 2019 14:56:44 +0000

March 23, 2019 Meditation Meetup

Tue, 21 May 2019 14:54:31 +0000

There's a glitch in the recording at about the hour mark.

March 16 Meditation Meetup Audio

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:40:03 +0000

March 9 Meditation Meetup audio

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:36:15 +0000

Thanks to 23SigmaTropic for annotating this recording! :) 00:00:12 Mike asks about forgetting vs. gross distraction, quality vs. duration of meditation. Initiating great advice and discussion from Ted and others about approach to Stage 1, goals in meditation and enjoying practice. 00:10:00 Oscar starts a discussion about tension and pain in practice and how to find enjoyment in the practice. Ted suggests lying down posture and allowing ourselves to be comfortable in practice. Discussion about how to approach pain in practice by Ted and Gilbert. 0:23:30 Zsolt discusses a persistent, distracting, energetic phenomenon, Ted and Sam give advice on how to approach it. 00:42:50 Bright Morningstar asks about how purifications manifest in metta practice, Sam gives his experience. 00:45:40 Kevin talks about his recent retreat and re-thinking approach to practice. Kevin sees more subtlety in his experience of meditation and wonders what to do with that. Discussion by Kevin, Ted, Gilbert and Sam about distinction between attention and awareness on an experiential level. 01:13:31 Mert describes some difficult purification-type experiences when doing metta and advice from Sam and Ted about what to do. 01:16:16 Rickasaurus on some odd gross distraction experiences despite being mostly in stage 6-7, discussion on diligence or lack thereof from Ted. Annotation for March 16 meetup 00:00:58 Jan reaches stage 10 on retreat with Tucker and describes how his practice looks currently. 00:09:03 Rodrigo discusses experiences with the body scan and working in stage 5. Discussion from Ted and Sam about acquired appearance of the breath, rabbit-hole like sorting out of the murky territory of stage 5 subtle dullness mixed in with some later stage perceptual elements that Rodrigo describes. 00:44:10 Rodrigo describes some hypnagogia and wondering about if/how to work with it, Jan chimes in about his experiences with lucid dreaming and other trippy stuff. 00:55:55 Sam talks about easing up in practice and howw to know when to tighten up vigilance and when to ease up, mindful awareness of states vs. being lost in states. 01:05:15 Jan and Sam discuss experiences with cessations/fruitions and checking in on Jan’s practice after his powerful retreat 01:18:30 Bright Morningstar brings up the question of following the breath in stage 2 and 3, and whether that happens continually or only after waking up to distraction, Ted suggests looking into stage 4 and 5 practices. 01:23:00 Oscar has trouble remembering to check in

March 2 Meditation Meetup Audio

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:32:16 +0000

February 23 Meditation Meetup Audio

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:29:42 +0000

February 16 Meditation Meetup Audio

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:27:51 +0000

February 9 Meditation Meetup Audio

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:24:49 +0000

February 2 Meetup Audio

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:21:47 +0000

This got chopped up quite a bit, but there's some interesting stuff in there. Sorry about the wreckage!

Audio from January 19 Meetup

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:07:12 +0000

I'm really sorry I got so far behind. I actually hadn't realized just how far behind I'd gotten, but I will try to get these updated today.

Saturday Morning Meetup, January 12, 2019

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 16:53:11 +0000

Lots of new faces at today's meetup, and lots of good questions. Some external content was referenced by various people during the call and links were given in the chat, which I have reproduced here: * Jean-François mentioned a Shinzen Young PDF ( https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/SeeHearFeelIntroduction_ver1.8.pdf ) and referred to some text on page 33. * Nick Grabovac's Youtube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOamNDelnD7u4w2qEI3WX-w ) was mentioned. * The article I mentioned to Oskar was this one ( https://abhayakara.fugue.com/blog/2019/1/7/the-intendreleasenotice-loop ).

Saturday Morning Meetup, January 5, 2019

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:38:42 +0000

We had some really great discussion with Sam about his personal experience navigating up from stage four to stage six, and also from stage six to stage seven, among other topics.

Saturday Morning Meetup, December 29, 2018

Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:20:21 +0000

This is the recording of the December 29 meetup. We start off talking about existential angst up until about the 23 minute mark, and then talk about more meditation-y stuff.

Saturday Morning Meetup, December 22, 2018

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 02:50:19 +0000

Saturday Morning Meetup, December 8, 2018

Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:03:30 +0000

No summary this time—time got away from me.

Saturday Morning Meetup, December 1, 2018

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:24:15 +0000

* 0:00 The difference between the "narrating mind" and the "inner voice" * 8:00 Vivid dreams and disturbed practice * 14:00 Waves of pīti, feeling a bit faint, and blips of missing time in meditation practice * 25:50 observations about interval bells and realizations about death and impermanence * 43:00 stage five to six practice, how to organize a session around body scanning and breathing with the body without using interval bells * 49:40 What to do when sits are high energy for about fifteen minutes, and then it sort of fades out * 1:02:30 A feeling of regressing from stage six or later all the way back to stage two, lots of emotions coming up in the body, lots of distractions coming up. What to do? * 1:25:15 Is there an index to Culadasa's Q&As? (yes) * Lots of community nachas Here is the chat transcript (edited): 11:25:30 From Mike : Culadasa "Sit, Breath, Wake Up" meditation. I know it well :) 11:26:38 From Mike : here's the feed! for the soundcloud meditations: 11:26:39 From Mike : http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:111086538/sounds.rss You can subscribe to the podcast here: https://www.patreon.com/rss/abhayakara?auth=xvG0OK4k1uyN3eyHXO1TR3AcsxvoD7Kb Here are the most recent timestamps from Culadasa's Patreon Q&A for October 29th. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/comments/9tuj88/timestamps_for_culadasas_october_29th_2018/