Category: Meditation
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Can an AI System Meditate?
Resolute meditators on occasion experience a deep inner quiet. It is a definite state of consciousness. You will know it if you experience it, but destroy it if you try to analyze it. If you have the good fortune to be vouchsafed such a state of awareness you must humbly accept it and not reflect…
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Grace
Between phenomenology and theology. Stack leader.
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An Impediment to Meditation
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Sam Harris on Rational Mysticism . . .
. . . and whether the self is an illusion. Top o' the Stack.
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This Morning’s Meditation
Notes with the help of Augustin Poulain Top o' the Stack
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Why a Philosopher Should Meditate . . .
. . . and why it is difficult for a philosopher to meditate. I trust that you are alive to the semantic polyvalence of 'meditate' and appreciate the sense in which I am using the term. Substack latest.
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Two Worries about Meditation
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Taming the Wild Horse of the Mind on the Road to Benares
This morning's meditation session ran from 3:10 ante meridiem to 4:00. Before that I was sketching six blog posts in my journal. My mind was on fire with ideas fueled in part by some entries from Volume Five of Tom Merton's journal. As flabby a liberal as he is, both politically and theologically, he is…
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A Minimum of Metaphysics for Meditation
Substack latest, on this, the feast day of St Monica.
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Buber on Buddhism: Notes on a Trenchant Critique
Substack latest. Martin Buber's critique of Buddhism, and of mysticism generally, is formidable.
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Meditation as Disciplined Non-Thinking
A Brunton passage elucidated. Substack latest.
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Two Worries about Meditation
One Christian friend worries that his meditation practice might lead him in a Buddhist direction, in particular toward an acceptance of the three marks of phenomenal existence: anicca, anatta, dukkha. He shouldn't worry. Those doctrines in their full-strength Pali form are dubious if not demonstrably untenable. As such, they cannot be veridical deliverances of any…
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The ‘Summons’ of Meditation
This has happened often. I go to the black mat to begin my session. I go there and assume the cross-legged posture. My purpose is to enter mental quiet and elevate my mind to the highest. But a petty thought obtrudes. I begin to enact or realize this 'centrifugal' thought by attending to it. But…
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Contra Adorno: A Preliminary Plea for Omphaloscopy
Wherein I stand up for navel-gazing and punch back at a totalitarian denier of Transcendence. Substack latest.