Answers During Meditation: What Is Really Happening?

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What is said here

• 00:00Here is a question: “How can you distinguish an inner experience during meditation from an illusion?” A young woman had been meditating every day for some time.Meditation · Time
• 01:31That is the whole point. If you learn to remain in a state of expanded perception and understanding, you do not need to sit down specifically for that, because during meditation…Meditation · Time
• 02:52Should you trust another person at all? How do you know the information they convey is their own?Time · Meditation
• 04:14You sat in a particular place, and ten years later you had a child. How is that connected with your thoughts, desires, wants, the direction you are moving in, or anything…Truth · Fear · Time
• 05:34As long as people remain caught up in that importance and significance, they will remain in delusion and conflict: “Does what I saw matter or not?”Spirit · Meditation

Claims made here

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• 00:37

  As you know, I keep saying that a meditative state is a state that accompanies your life.

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• 00:56

  This is very important. Again, I see a meditative state as something that should accompany you always.

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• 01:14

  In the same way, when you come to a meditation and sit down, you are still the same ordinary person, living your ordinary life. Believe me, your ordinary self and ordinary life always take precedence over the state you experience there.

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• 01:33

  If you learn to remain in a state of expanded perception and understanding, you do not need to sit down specifically for that, because the same thing happens during meditation.

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• 03:12

  You need to be very clear about this. If you single out the importance of observing certain states during meditation rather than throughout your life, you will be moving along a little at a time.

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• 04:56

  A person's usual perception is distracted: attention is always drawn to their own personality, ego, fears, psychophysical tensions, problems, nervousness, and circumstances, away from all the life around them.

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• 05:20

  If we can even use the word “beautiful,” it is always more beautiful than all those things.

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• 05:29

  What interests people is their own inner problems, their inner state, their importance and significance.

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• 05:34

  As long as people remain caught up in that importance and significance, they will remain in delusion and conflict.

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• 07:15

  So when someone asks themselves, “Did I hear the truth or something untrue?” that is merely an echo of the reality of what is happening.

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