Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Searching for the Self (guided meditation)
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Searching for the Self (guided meditation)
This is a recording of one of the guided meditations we did during our Tuesday, weekly group session. The different phenomenal forms of selfhood pointed to in this guided meditation are:
Categorical Self - This is identification with the content of beliefs that form in the mind. I.e. beliefs like "I am a human, brain, squirrel."
Historical Self - Identification with the sense of being a thing which persists across multiple moments. "I am the same thing now which was one second ago."
Spatial Self - This is the feeling of identifying with some point in space. "I am here, not there." This is accompanied by the notion that there is some centre of consciousness to which experience converges on - I rest at some vantage point from which I perceive the world.
Epistemic Agent - Having the sense that there is a knower in addition to experience. Feeling like you are the hearer of sounds, the thinker of thoughts, the receiver of sights, the experiencer of experience. When this phenomenon manifests the mind system is convinced that there is something/some entity to which experience is happening to. This is the most fundamental sense of self as it is the first to form and the last to be disabused of - it is also the subtlest. With the epistemic agent comes some feeling of contraction and also suffering.
🧘♂️🧘🏻♂️🧘 If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger host an online weekly meditation group.
🌐 For more details check out our website: meditative.dev/web
👨🏫 Interested in personal 1 on 1 meditation guidance for developing insight into no-self and emptiness? Contact Roger via his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069819468309
View all episodes
By Meditative.devThis is a recording of one of the guided meditations we did during our Tuesday, weekly group session. The different phenomenal forms of selfhood pointed to in this guided meditation are:
Categorical Self - This is identification with the content of beliefs that form in the mind. I.e. beliefs like "I am a human, brain, squirrel."
Historical Self - Identification with the sense of being a thing which persists across multiple moments. "I am the same thing now which was one second ago."
Spatial Self - This is the feeling of identifying with some point in space. "I am here, not there." This is accompanied by the notion that there is some centre of consciousness to which experience converges on - I rest at some vantage point from which I perceive the world.
Epistemic Agent - Having the sense that there is a knower in addition to experience. Feeling like you are the hearer of sounds, the thinker of thoughts, the receiver of sights, the experiencer of experience. When this phenomenon manifests the mind system is convinced that there is something/some entity to which experience is happening to. This is the most fundamental sense of self as it is the first to form and the last to be disabused of - it is also the subtlest. With the epistemic agent comes some feeling of contraction and also suffering.
🧘♂️🧘🏻♂️🧘 If you like this content and are interested in meditating with us, Shawn and Roger host an online weekly meditation group.
🌐 For more details check out our website: meditative.dev/web
👨🏫 Interested in personal 1 on 1 meditation guidance for developing insight into no-self and emptiness? Contact Roger via his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069819468309