How to Choose a Meditation and a Teacher: What Can You Really Rely On?

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AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationChoosing a meditationAwareness, observation, and perceptionSpirit

What is said here

• 00:00Am I right that I can enter a meditative state at different times in my life in general? You can enter samadhi while watching television, simply watching a movie.Meditation · Time
• 01:08First, we should start with what someone means by meditation. I talk about this a lot on the channel, and I want to explain again that there is a great difference…Meditation · WHOOP
• 02:28That is how society defines it. If we classify meditation only as recovery for the physical body, then what does the person want to compare? What are they comparing?Meditation · Children
• 03:45What difference does it make? It does not matter at all. Let us call it an additional aspect—an additional aspect that can even get in the way.Meditation · Expanded perception
• 05:14If we see meditation as a particular state, we are saying that a meditative state should essentially be present throughout your life. It is not a separate…Samadhi · Meditation
• 06:33Or do people notice these states only when someone sits them in a chair and they say, “Yes, now I am feeling something. Yes, I have relaxed”?Meditation
• 19:59“Well, the main group, of course, will not experience anything. They need this for future lives. For future lives.” There is a big question about whether comparison makes any sense.Meditation
• 21:12It is like your ability to perceive different trees every day in the same way, to see life in them every time. To see life in them every time.Time · Galya (meditation channel participant)
• 25:54Galya, you attend my meditations for reasons unknown to you, or only partly known. Even though you have spent hundreds—probably not hundreds anymore, but thousands—of hours exploring why you…Meditation · ChatGPT
• 27:41And compare forty people and their meditations. Include this person, the person you watch, and everyone else.Spirit · Steve Jobs · ChatGPT

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• 01:23

  When you describe meditation to someone, you have one understanding in mind, while they understand something completely different.

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• 01:37

  If you ask that question from the standard understanding of meditation—if we look up what it is—it will say that meditation is an activity that brings a person into, say, a calm state, some kind of “connection”…

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• 08:29

  In material terms, knowing the truth means knowing that this person thinks you are bad, that this one stole something from you, that another thanks you every day but you do not hear it.

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• 15:24

  However much they ground themselves in it, however much they believe themselves, however much people talk about meditating, in most cases the physical world is what matters to them.

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• 18:21

  If you cannot ground yourself in the wholeness of your spiritual life and perceive your true path—within which your present life is fleeting—that does not mean this life is unimportant or meaningless.

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• 19:10

  In many of my meditations—I have a numbered series—I often say that this develops your spiritual system and your spiritual being.

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• 24:56

  Someone says they do not like playing the piano, so they have never learned it.

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• 25:44

  So when we talk about entering a particular state, we need to understand that doing so also requires the impulse and the energy.

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• 25:54

  Galya, you attend my meditations for reasons unknown to you, or only partly known.

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• 26:14

  You know yourself that the impulse, the inner desire to take certain actions, read certain books, travel somewhere, or spend time with certain people arises and automatically draws a person there. It is not that…

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