One Thing || The Do Nothing Project with Jeff Warren, April 14, 2024

Meditation starts: 05:35 || Meditation ends: 31:20
Today we review some basics: the power of sustained attention as a way to diminish craving and aversion and thus suffering. Normally our mind pulls us in all directions, grabbing on to enticing thoughts, or pushing away from restlessness or boredom or whatever. All the endless ways we find experience unsatisfying, and so deepen our suffering. The human condition! Meditation offers an alternative, a kind of game: what if we stay? Can we stay with one thing, and get curious about what kind of craving or aversion pulls us away? Can we get past the dissatisfaction, to the peace that waits on the other side? Jeff offers an additional trick for folks with a lot of ADHD-style minds (like his): add counting and image onto sensation, so you have more to do! Meditating in this way increases the stability and power and potency of our minds. Welcome to this edition of The Do Nothing Project.
Jeff writes and records a new free 10 minute meditation each week on his Home Base Substack, here is the latest:
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What is the Do Nothing Project all about?
This is an experiment in doing … not much. Together.
Every Sunday at 8pm EST, Jeff (or a guest host, like DNP moderator Andrew Lenards) says some words of greeting, and then guides a 25-minute meditation that everyone can feel free to ignore. The time can be used to meditate, or doodle, or to stare vacantly into space repeating ‘the humanity, the humanity.’
The whole thing has a nice community feel, with people from around the world accomplishing nothing together. If you miss a broadcast (like maybe you have a “job”), it will be archived on this KZbin channel, so you can watch it later, on your own timeline.
“A certain amount of ordinary laziness would lend our culture the pleasant mellowness which it singularly lacks.” - Alan Watts
If you want to receive email reminders every week about the next Do Nothing broadcast, you can subscribe to this list. eepurl.com/ghljtv
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For those who are enjoying the Do Nothing Project, we invite you to check out the Consciousness Explorers Club (cecmeditate.com/), a non-profit organization founded by Jeff and run by a team of passionate volunteers. The CEC offers free, online meditations, articles and aims to be a resource for community practice groups around the world. You can also donate to the CEC here: / cecmeditate
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