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Andrew started the topic Culadasa attitude to "Hard" problem of consciousness in the forum Meditation 7 years, 9 months ago
Hi! There is famous “Hard” problem of consciousness, how the conscious experience arises? Some scientists believe there is no correct answer to this question in the current scientific framework. Others say that there is no such problem at all, there is just information exchange. From one of the Culadasa retreats I’ve heard that he briefly said…[Read more]
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Andrew replied to the topic Measuring meditation quality in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi Michael
I mean the self-report measure, not EEG, fMRI etc. it’s a kind of questionnaire where we answer the questions and try to estimate the quality of our meditation. For me it looks useful for 2 reasons:
1) when we try to estimate different aspects of meditation we pay closer attention to them, can compare them and it helps us to be more…[Read more] -
Andrew replied to the topic Subtle dullness in daily life in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
It feels similar like subtle dullness during stage 4-5 : the absence of thoughts, emotions and it is pleasant dullness ). It’s not experienced all the time, there could be lot’s of causes for that state (I found the lack of sleep, recovery from exercises, weather, bad mood…). So I feel it’s also something required to overcome like in meditation,…[Read more]
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Andrew started the topic Measuring meditation quality in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi!
There are some self-report systems in science to measure everyday mindfulness (say, MAAS for example). But I can’t find anything for measuring quality of the meditation session. Say, it’s possible to estimate the stability of attention, the number of thoughts arose, the quality of extraspection and introspection awareness so for. Do you think…[Read more]
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Andrew started the topic Subtle dullness in daily life in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi!
Any thoughts about how to deal with stable subtle dullness in daily life? It feels like being a kind of a robot, with the lack of emotions, thoughts and awareness about them.
Thank you
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Andrew replied to the topic Confused about introspective awareness and concentration depth (stages 4-5) in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
Thank you Pablo. I’ll try to observe the end of the thoughts and see what happens. As for the gaps between breaths, I noticed that usually attention shifts to thoughts or other distractions during these gaps, so I try to sustain attention even on the subtle sensations between breaths and it helps me to feel more concentrated.
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Andrew started the topic Confused about introspective awareness and concentration depth (stages 4-5) in the forum Meditation 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi! I’m practicing around level 4-5, and sit from 1 hour to 1 hour 20 minutes 1-3 times a day. I’ve started to revise my meditation process as after 3.5 months of working on level’s 5 body scanning I still can’t feel the breath sensations clearly in the body, though it seems my concentration skills have been improved.
One thing I became confused…[Read more]
