Can Meditation Become an Addiction or a Way to Escape Life?

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AVAlexander VolchekMeditation practice and techniqueMeditationMeditation as an escape from lifeAwareness, observation, and perceptionExpanded perception

What is said here

• 00:00There is a series of meditations—forty-two of them now. Every so often I feel like sitting down and watching them all again, one after another. That would probably take two…Meditation · Time
• 00:58People would usually say “an escape from reality.” “Or an escape from reality, yes.” “Yes. If you see reality as the material world, and the spiritual world…”Spirit
• 02:22It is your life. That is very important. It is your life. That is reality, actual reality. There are indeed more than forty meditations now, and at the time of filming this…Meditation
• 03:47Some things are aimed simply at calm, such as listening to good music. I practice the piano, for example. Whatever state I am in when I sit down to…Time · Meditation
• 06:33Can you imagine how much the world has come to revolve around the mind and society, to call something an addiction when it is something people really ought to devote a great deal of time to, but do not?Time · Meditation
• 08:00That is fine. But by continuing to observe a person, you can see what their various addictions are.Expanded perception · Health · Truth
• 10:03Expanding perception—or an impulse directed toward the fact that we live in a spiritual world. If that is what the impulse is directed toward, it cannot create any addiction.Truth · Meditation · Time
• 11:16This is a very broad, very large question, and also a very general one. What do I mean by general? Imagine you are expanding your perception and have an ego.Meditation
• 12:41It is the same familiar theme in business communities. People have made money, and now they need to work on themselves, find calm, and so on.Meditation
• 15:38All of this is not so much complicated as additional detail, until a person arrives at the question and the impulse to search for real truth. So why not?Meditation · Truth

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• 01:48

  Expanding your perception will never lead you to conclude that the material world is meaningless.

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• 03:16

  If anyone can spend a week sitting in meditation for twelve hours every day—if someone can do that—write to me.

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• 04:42

  Throughout that time, my pulse and HRV indicated recovery.

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• 05:37

  Since I track various indicators, my main focus is on how different states of expanded consciousness affect them. When I watch a movie, just as when I play the piano…

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• 06:33

  Can you imagine how much the world has come to revolve around the mind and society, to call something an addiction when it is something people really ought to devote a great deal of time to, but do not?

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• 06:45

  These days, people who begin watching what they eat and avoiding sugar are called addicted. Addicted.

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• 07:10

  You can indeed look after your body and be addicted because you need recognition from others.

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• 09:01

  People say, “They are addicted to looking after their health.”

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• 10:22

  Another aspect is that you have a physical body, various psychophysical programs, inherited programs, heredity, and your life as the unfolding of karma. As these intertwine with the search for truth, with the time spent searching for truth, you may…

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• 13:35

  Someone says, “My religion is right, and theirs is not.”

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