Intro
Sam Harris
Sam introduces the playlist.
Meditation
Adyashanti
Learn the foundational meditation that supports all subsequent practices.
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James Low
We want to allow everything to happen, without identifying with any of it. That’s tricky.
Henry Shukman
Drop everything, let all systems power down, and come into a state of ease.
Adyashanti, Sam Harris
We almost always focus on the content, but freedom is in the context.
Jitindriyā
Notice what happens when you meet every experience with love and kindness.
Joseph Goldstein
“Liberation is not about becoming anything. It’s not about getting anything.”
Stephan Bodian
Examine the process of thinking and look for the subject of experience.
Lesson
Seth Gillihan
Identify the thought; examine the evidence; and consider the alternatives.
Relax into the mind that knows little, but is full of possibilities.
Jack Kornfield, Sam Harris
“The goal is to be present and liberated, to be amused by and care about the world.”
Jayasāra
Let go of any attempt to control the thinking process, and observe your mind.
For five minutes, treat all thought as being entirely meaningless.
Move beyond mere images and experience how everything is made of awareness.
We identify not as our bodies but as separate subjects inside of them.
Bring your awareness inward and connect with the sensations of your body.
You aren’t having experience—you are experience.
Loch Kelly
Ask yourself a simple question—and see if anything changes in your experience.
Discover why you should learn to enjoy the minor annoyances of life.
Ask "Who am I?"—and find your way back to the source of all experiencing.
The more you seek the thinker of your thoughts, the more you discover its absence.
Allow your mindfulness to transition into the world of immediate experience.
Our actions and desires vary over time, yet we imagine a self that remains constant.
Relax, settle in to your body, and wish yourself well.
Giving to others brings the pleasure of compassion and the freedom of renunciation.
Annaka Harris
Imagine you can see everyone on the planet—and then wish them well.
William B. Irvine
Your life is the envy of many in the world and would be for many of your ancestors.
See what it's like to send loving-kindness to a difficult person in your life.
David Whyte, Sam Harris
Talk to yourself as you would to a friend: compassionately and constructively.
Notice how emotions hijack and fixate attention from our natural state of ease.
Feelings, good and bad, come from thinking about people, present and absent.
Kelly Boys
What sensations or images accompany the mention of good and bad emotions?
There is no central self—just patterns, which are perennially in flux.
Learn how to experience an unpleasant emotion from awakened consciousness.
Ease uncertainty by returning to the present and reevaluating your thoughts.
Diana Winston
Examine the impermanence of difficult emotions through investigative awareness.
With mindfulness, we can start to understand the messages of anger—and then act with balance, skill, and appropriateness.
Embrace the full range of sensation, free of labels and stories.
Present pain is real; future pain is imagined. The difference matters.
Examine every part of your body, while allowing tension to soften and dissolve.
We can't avoid physical discomfort, despite our many attempts to do so.
Welcome any painful emotions, and hold them with compassion.
Qa
Are there certain experiences, like tinnitus, that are avoidable through mindfulness practice?
Discover how pain can be a doorway into mindfulness and true equanimity.
Contemplation
David Whyte
Reflect on how pain immediately acquaints us with "existence itself."
Explore the conditioned habit of wanting things to be different than they are.
Identifying with—and resisting—fleeting thoughts and sensations gives rise to suffering.
Notice thoughts and feelings of dissatisfaction—and let them go.
Laurie Santos, Sam Harris
Pleasure and satisfaction are different, and a flourishing life contains both.
Find balance and relaxation while exploring the sensation of wanting.
What we do in pursuit of happiness often brings us suffering instead.
Go beyond the concept of time to experience what's right here, right now.
Past, present, and future are concepts—and mask the freshness of experience.
Dissect your experience of time and discover what's happening now.
Our experiences of past and future are mere thoughts in the present moment.
Learn Adya's core tenets of meditation.
"By completely embracing limitation, you become free within it."
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