Hi Sonam, really enjoying your videos. Do you still listen to music at all, or is that something you have cut out as I well? I have noticed how messages in songs can impact negatively impact thoughts, but obviously there's many types of music with/without words or messages.

Personally I'm interested in meditation to reduce stress and get the health benefits of that, I don't feel particularly interested in courses or teachings that focus on spiritual insight, so I think we have different criteria

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I have used insight timer for a few years but only the actual timer. I use Shimmr as well which has amazing audio quality and options

Thank you for sharing. This was very insightful.

Opened up Moments of Space to see a little Gwyneth Paltrow video... that is, unfortunately, a turn off.

How much water? I drink tumeric milk

youre a good looking dude homie. also video is good.

Is moment of space paid?

I’m a minimalist. I plan on selling all my things and traveling the world in the future, with a bunch of freaking cash of course 🤑

Unlearn Stress app is budget friendly 👀

First of all it’s non conceptual..

Sam Harris 😂😅. What a joke.

Nobody explains it as well as you thankyou

Nice!

hi, i am starting this kind of lifestyle. problem is i have many clothes, around 50 maybe, and not yet ready to dispose them. do u have tips? also what i dont understand about minimalist guys, why do u own one color or almost the same colors? if you already own 20-25 why not make it a different color instead?

Having a child is "the human way", so most often a kind of karma. Deciding not to have a child is conceptual thinking - also karma. So either way, it is karma. I do not recommend to evaluate this karma at all! Verifying it is "ethical or not" - already a mistake! IMHO selfish thinking often makes people choose absolute freedom and want to keep "good situation". The problem is: no one can keep the "good situation" forever.

I appreciate this video very helpful what other apps options besides headspace and calm.

In a sense the point of meditation is to become meditative even outside of meditation

Number 10 is vipassana, right?

You should review the app Balance. I’ve been using it and would love to hear your opinion on it.

Hi Sonam, I finally got to watch Eating Plants New Zealand. Just wanted to congratulate you on a fantastic job. Definitely makes me want to visit New Zealand.

16:28 “The training is not conceptualizing your present experience and just recognizing it for what it is. And that is and it happens to be selfless.” Yes. This training is also the experience of nonduality. “Then, Bāhiya, you should train yourself thus: In reference to the seen, there will be only the seen. In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. That is how you should train yourself. When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the sensed, only the cognized in reference to the cognized, then, Bāhiya, there is no you in connection with that. When there is no you in connection with that, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor yonder nor between the two. This, just this, is the end of stress.” -Bahiya sutta

One of my favorite objects of meditation is the space between thoughts. I usually begin by focusing on the totality of my sensory experience including the breath until my mind calms down enough for the gaps to grow. This is also my favorite way to fall asleep. Sometimes the phosphenes I’m watching behind my closed eyes transition into dream images and it becomes a hypnagogic experience. My other favorite meditation is first jhana. I luxuriate in how nice it feels to be completely relaxed and breathing deeply and easily without thoughts about any worries or concerns. Nice tingles eventually arise, similar to those I experience while watching ASMR videos.

I was a passenger in a car, just relaxing and watching the scenery pass by. At some point I realized that I had neglected to construct a separate sense of self having the experience. I finally understood the Bahiya sutta: in the seeing, just the seen. I also immediately realized that it’s a very ordinary thing. Ever “lost yourself” in a book or a movie? Felt self-conscious speaking in front of a crowd? We’ve all experienced how the sense of self comes and goes. It happens so often that the descriptions are idiomatic. People try to make the dropping of self into this esoteric indescribable transcendent mystical experience, but it’s actually so commonplace as to be banal. Most of us have just never stayed with the experience, much less investigated it.

Have you ever “lost yourself” in a book or a movie? Have you ever felt self-conscious speaking in front of a crowd? All of us have experienced how the sense of self comes and goes, so much so that the descriptions are idiomatic. People try to make the dropping of self into this esoteric indescribable transcendent mystical experience, but it’s actually so commonplace as to be banal. Most of us have just never stayed with the experience, much less investigated it. Self-inquiry before the initial shift is not about getting rid of the sense of self. It’s about looking for the sense of being you before thoughts arise, followed by experiencing the sense of being (i.e., the self). Who am I? What am I? Where am I? Am I? The answer is not a thought. The answer is the silent experience of awareness/being/consciousness/knowing. That experience of awareness is also an appearance in awareness. There is no separation between awareness and the contents of awareness and that includes the sense of self.

Beautiful and clear explanation. How refreshing. Thank you 🙏

If you search for the looker or the perceiver, you may find a sense of awareness and believe that to be your true Self. Eventually you’ll likely realize that the feeling of being that knower is itself also arising in awareness. Awareness is not separate from its contents. These perceptions aren’t owned by you any more than the thoughts you perceive. Everything is arising on its own. “For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception…. If any one, upon serious and unprejudic'd reflection thinks he has a different notion of himself, I must confess I can reason no longer with him. All I can allow him is, that he may be in the right as well as I, and that we are essentially different in this particular. He may, perhaps, perceive something simple and continu'd, which he calls himself; tho' I am certain there is no such principle in me.” ― David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

2:55 - i have a question, not being able to keep the focus on the sensation for long, for example 5 second, can keep happening also at the level that you are at? i want to know that to accept myself better in those moment and also to have some metric for progress... thanks in advance!

He just has clothes? Whats the purpose of a minimal wardrobe if this wardrobe doesnt support the way u want to present yourself to the world.

I’m not sure exactly when I first saw this video, maybe almost 2 years ago but I keep coming back to it every so often. Your straight talking, blunt approach is a welcome change from most other minimalism videos. Addressing the backlash from family and friends in such an honest way was particularly helpful. I also like the part about taking responsibility for our things and the link to our egos. Very useful video, thank you.

Would it be fair to say that the thinking mind is "loud" like 110% but thinking is really a sensation like any other? Because of the "loudness" it feels like the ego/thought is primary? That is, we're fundamentally the world/experience but since the ego/thought is so incessant and intrusive things appear like sensation are in service/subordinate to the ego? I wouldn't say the sensation of an itch is me, then can I confidently say that a thought I'm experiencing isn't me? If this is true, how then when I'm not meditating, the talking watching interactive me still feels like it's "primary". Or do I need to recalibrate and see this too as just another experience? NOTE: I'm a faithful user of the waking up app and I find it incredibly frustrating when Sam snaps his finger. It's a bit demoralizing as I'm a long time user of his app and I have yet to experience or recognize non-dual nature. Totally get your snapping finger reference and thought it funny.

La dernière chose dont j'aurais envie dans un tel décor c'est écouter de la musique. No need to, just de sound of the Wind, water...

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Thank you for your explanations

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When I can't subscribe let me know. I like learning new things

Does thinking about the thing that you're meditating on count as thoughts or awareness? Like, if I imagine the bird that's chirping or if I wonder what material your ring is made of--am I meditating or getting distracted?

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i used to do that kaleidoscope kinda thing. i'd let images and scenes just morph about while not being invested...just observing random things that pop in my head as kind of an overseer. i ended up lucid dreaming a lot from that though and had an awful experience lol. anymore i kinda basically just focus on the "blackness" from having my eyes closed and just push out thoughts that enter and refocus on the black behind my eyes lol. works so i just go with it. i'm gonna try that visualizing a nice space though!

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It is easy for men to wear black all week I like colours and wear depending my moods