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Rob Burbea - Meditation Fantasies & The Soulmaking Dharma

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

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The Power of Concepts to Shape and Limit Perception

I started meditating when I was 19, really because I saw scientific studies about how meditation actually was good for the brain. My way in was this kind of scientific model of what meditation was for. But then I went really deep. I spent years in monasteries. I've done lots of intensive silent retreats. And so again, there's this way that you have of kind of talking about what practice is for in terms of extending the range of our perception. Like, are we able to experience things as sacred? Why not? If we're not,. Yeah, absolutely.

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