Culadasa February 2021 Patreon Q&A No2

[@ИгорьСмирнов-д1ъ]

0:05 - 2:39 - question about purification. Topics touched in the answer: what's a purification?; essential element of purification; negative physical sensations and acceptance as a gateway to the process of purification which will involve an emotional trauma or a psychological conflicts in the past. 13:03 - 14:00 - first part of second question: how to deal with a difficult state of agitation/confusion occuring in the beginning part of meditation. 16:33 - 17:14 - second part of second question: how to deal with conditioning (thoghts, emotions, behavior) creating this difficult state. 20:48 - addition thoughts about this question from the other participant. 22:45 - maintaining motivation for awakening in the midst of deadlines, homework and etc. 25:44 - tips on dealing with the stress that is caused by hard to do responsibilities and for preserving the intention to awaken in the middle of hard work that one finds unpleasant and meaningless. 28:18 - 28:52 - about technique "checking in" and its importance: how does it feel like?; does it happen quickly (less than a second) or does it last multiple seconds? 38:02 - 38:32 - What does awaresness actually feel like? (importance of four step transition in developing awaresness, improving ability to see the difference between attention and awaresness and not cheating yourself in the process of transition). 46:57 - question about moments of attention and awaresness happening at the same time. 48:43 - some thoughts about diffusing attention as much as possible in oder to feel awaresness. 50:16 - using awaresness and attention in daily life (example: studying things like math theorem), an analogy between solving problems in life and solving problems in mathematics using attention and awaresness. 57:55 - feeling of energy (agitation) in one's forehead and between one's eyebrows and how do deal with that. 1:03:40 - question about meditation's having ability to induce migraine with aura. 1:10:34 - about science's compatibility with spirituality.

[@BradCordovaAI]

Thanks so much. Very helpful, I appreciate it.

[@c7eye]

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