Meditation Is Life Itself, If You Perceive It

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekMeditationExpanded perceptionMeditation practice and techniqueAwareness, observation, and perceptionTruth

Main threads of the conversation

• 00:00How do you meditate correctly?
• 00:22The main mistake in searching for a technique
• 00:48Meditation or an exercise?
• 01:16Why calm is not yet meditation
• 01:42A meditative state in everyday life
• 02:12Not “Which technique is best?” but “What am I perceiving?”
• 02:39Meditation is not a refuge
• 03:02Where true meditation begins
• 03:24A question for viewers and an invitation to subscribe

Claims made here

Individual claims identified in the material: who said them, when, and what kind of thought they express. Each timestamp opens that point in the video.

• 00:01

  They say, “Show me the technique, show me the posture, show me how to breathe, show me what I should feel.”

  Alexander Volchek

• 00:01

  It may be useful in some respects and may even work.

  Alexander Volchek

• 00:53

  It is no longer “Which technique is best?” but “What am I perceiving right now? What am I not perceiving? Where am I caught in an illusion?”

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• 00:53

  Where do I simply want to calm down so I can go on living in the same way?

  Alexander Volchek

• 01:46

  That is why you cannot simply start going to sessions with mats, particular postures, particular music, or a particular sound.

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• 01:46

  That is why you cannot simply buy the right technique and settle the matter.

  Alexander Volchekprinciplecause

• 01:46

  But meditation begins where a person starts to see: “I am alive. I perceive. I am a spiritual being.”

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• 01:46

  And where do I truly want to see the truth?

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• 02:51

  What can I sense and perceive simultaneously in different states?

  Alexander Volchek