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Making a Meditation Machine - Buddha in the Beast

Summary

, 8 min

Meditation modeled as an engine of spark, fuel, air and compression, so a stalled practice can be diagnosed part by part: the reason for sitting, breath in heart rate variability, expansion and letting go, and OM japa in every chakra, which short-circuits the limbic brain's projections back into the brain. Includes a monster bus ride.

In this video

Teaches
Fundamentals of meditation
Mentions
Benefits of meditationPranayamaExpansionSpiritual eyeMartial artsRight amygdala

Key moments

00:04A meditation machine: spark, fuel, air and compression00:59Riding the monster bus02:43Reverse engineering an engine and a company in four parts03:50Spark: the reason for showing up to meditate04:17Fuel: pranayama and heart rate variability04:38Air: expanding the spiritual eye, letting go, relaxing04:59Compression: OM japa short-circuits the chakra projections06:20Gluing the four parts into one practice