Why You Cannot Meditate Regularly Even When You Understand Its Purpose

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AVAlexander VolchekOMOlya (meditation channel participant)Meditation practice and techniqueMeditationRegular meditationSpirit

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• 00:04Many people, especially those who want to meditate, understand the value of meditation. Watching your videos seems to make the practice even more valuable…Meditation
• 00:43Unable to make themselves do it, or feeling they have no energy, no time, no attention, or forgetting about it altogether—let us look at the question from several angles.Meditation · Time
• 01:40Then the question is which part of the spectrum you shift into for that perception, which range you want to sense and look at.Spirit
• 03:17Imagine a person in these different areas of perception. Usually, when someone sits down to meditate, an interesting effect, a cool effect for them, is shifting their…Meditation · Spirit
• 04:27What does “this state” mean? What is it like? How would you measure it? What kind of sensors would you need to connect with that state and measure it in one person, a second…Meditation
• 05:17Particular events in your own life that you may not be very happy with or may not like very much. Is that meditation? Obviously, it is. It obviously is.Meditation · Expanded perception
• 06:09There is an enormous amount of external resistance too. They do not see it as you sitting down just to feel good. The point is that you have sat down to expand your perception.Awareness · Spirit · Time
• 10:37You act like a robot, absolutely like a robot. Even when you attend a particular class, you come as a robot.Meditation · Retreat
• 11:26An endless variety of them, all of which are true from one side and false from another.Truth · Time
• 12:18For the most part, they understand very clearly what they are doing. Though let us be clear: people do not fully understand their teeth or everything connected with them. But fundamentally, they rely on something.Meditation

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• 00:04

  Many people, especially those who want to meditate, understand the value of meditation. Watching your videos seems to make the practice even more valuable. You seem to understand that it is important…

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• 01:03

  First, we need to say—and I keep saying this everywhere, including within the meditations themselves—that meditation is not a deliberate action aimed at obtaining a certain kind of consciousness or a particular state.

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• 04:22

  Yet when I talk about this state, it is a complete abstraction.

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• 04:31

  What kind of sensors would you need to connect with that state and measure it in one person, a second, a third? Such sensors do not exist today.

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• 05:31

  So when you talk about whether a person can or cannot sit down, you need to understand this clearly.

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• 10:22

  Of course, you may touch on it a little. What it means not to have approached it is all very relative.

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• 10:46

  You simply have an impulse to attend that class, encounter a particular person, come to a particular meditation, go away on a retreat, or read a particular book.

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• 11:26

  An endless variety of them, all of which are true from one side and false from another.

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• 12:09

  A person brushes their teeth based on something. This is very important.

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• 12:29

  A person eats based on something; they understand why they are doing it.

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