6min chapter

Ram Dass Here And Now cover image

Ep. 187 – The Mechanics of Mind

Ram Dass Here And Now

CHAPTER

Meditation Techniques - Using Historical Data as a Release Mechanism for a Behavior Pattern

When you follow the breath in meditation, we are focusing on the mechanics of mind, not the content of mind. The value of him for me was that he couldn't have cared if what y my name could have been, four, six, three, for all he cared. And so when you go into those kind of meditation techniques, formally, what you do is you undercut the whole way in which content works and just get into mechanics. As you keep opening and opening an opening and keeping dusting away the content, without getting seducted in by its bottomless well of fascination, until your mind just lets it go. I've told about er how once, several years ago,

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode