
VideoMeditationFeb 17, 202617:22
Can You Meditate While Driving? Awareness in Motion | 360° View from Inside the Car
Alexander Volchek
One of the key things to understand when considering meditation is that it is not tied to a separate exercise you perform. Entering a meditative state means awareness, your awareness at that moment.
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Alexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationAwareness, observation, and perceptionAwarenessMeditation in motion
What is said here
- 00:01To add to the video I made about meditation and what it is, I want to discuss an interesting point that brings its essence into sharp focus. What is meditation?Meditation · Expanded perception · San Francisco
- 01:47The car has sensors that recognize things such as your eyes and face, and somehow it appeared to the car that I had become inattentive. Of course, I was fully attentive.Awareness · Spirit
- 03:34When I communicate something, there are interruptions. Why are there interruptions? How can you notice them? How can you tell there are interruptions?
- 05:29When you watch television at home, you enter a particular space. When you talk to your husband or wife, you enter a particular space.Time · Mom / mother · Spirit
- 07:13More than that, there are spaces where the concept of time does not exist, and spaces that are clearly, distinctly perceived as timeless.Meditation · Death
- 08:58Remember it and keep experiencing it. For this to happen, you need, among other things, to accept death.Death · Acceptance · Fear
- 11:42This is well described in accounts of encounters with animals. They say that if you see a wild animal, the first thing to do is stay calm and aware, and remember what…Spirit · Awareness
- 13:22For example, a person cries because their I compresses the astral body, and laughs when their I releases it. For example. How is this connected? A person fights it at the level of the physical body.Meditation · Wikipedia
- 15:03Believe me, you have quite a substantial flow of thoughts. The question is whether that flow is alive. What do people want to calm? They want to calm dead thoughts. But to do that, you need to become aware of it.Meditation · Spirit
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- 02:05
I remember that moment very clearly. I felt much better than on the drive to San Francisco, when I had needed the bathroom and there had been a lot of noise.
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- 08:20
In my case, that is what people imposed on me: that it was a state to be afraid of, rather than one to enter more deeply.
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- 10:36
To approach the transition properly, first you need to recognize the importance of sensing life after death, of understanding and believing that it exists.
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- 10:50
But again, I am discussing all of this within the context of meditation and understanding what a meditative state is.
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- 11:14
Why did I give the example of disappearing, or of someone feeling that they are dying? To immerse yourself in what is needed, what is required, rather than in your various psychophysical or psychosomatic problems, worries, and fears.
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- 12:59
People who begin spiritual development think the physical body is stopping or obstructing it.
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- 13:38
Many people simply regard the spiritual world as separate from the material and physical worlds, as something entirely distinct and unconnected, something completely different.
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- 13:59
We have discussed this before: if we read about meditation on Wikipedia or elsewhere online, we see that a great many descriptions of meditation are written specifically from…
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- 16:45
Right now, you can enter the spiritual world and see this swarm of darkness, this swarm of darkness.
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- 16:53
The darkness is there, and you can go into it endlessly. It is not just a bottomless barrel; it is a bottomless multiverse, where even finding the way out is a question.
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Who this is for
- For readers interested in: Meditation practice and technique, Awareness, observation, and perception, Spiritual development and the spiritual path
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