Meditation
Practice with your eyes open, and drop any identification with thought.
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Lesson
Discover why real mindfulness is effortless.
Discover how thoughts and strong emotions can alter experience.
Explore an age-old question: "What is the meaning of it all?"
Notice how thoughts, sensations, and sounds appear all on their own.
Explore a common pitfall of meditation and spiritual practice.
Use your attention as a flashlight to focus on different parts of your body.
Consider the paradox at the heart of meditation practice.
Notice the feeling of being inside your head, and see if that's truly your point of view.
Examine the power of ideas and the impact that they have on the world around us.
Deepen your understanding by revisiting the key concepts of meditation practice.
See how thought creates most of human culture, and how it runs our lives.
Practice with open eyes and notice how every sensation arises in consciousness.
Clear up any confusion you feel when you're asked to "look for what's looking."
Examine various objects in your visual field to see if they're really separate.
Understand how consciousness is the one thing in the world that cannot be an illusion.
Feel compassion for yourself and others with Metta (loving-kindness) practice.
Discover how mindfulness can help you find relief from constant mental chatter.
Learn to accept things as they are and gain freedom in each moment.
Listen to Sam clarify his ideas about consciousness and first-person experience.
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