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Delayed Gratification in Meditation

Summary

, 13 min

Delayed gratification as a principle for life and meditation, illustrated by the Stanford marshmallow experiment, video games, good works and karma, alchemy, and Jack and the Beanstalk. Small early results, like one of the Four Proofs, compound into the Freeze Response and Tranquil Breath, toward bliss and expansion in the brain.

In this video

Teaches
Delayed gratification
Discusses
Self-fulfilling prophecyAlchemyMythology and symbolismRight hippocampusFour Proofs of Meditation

Key moments

00:00Delayed gratification, a secret of life and meditation00:50The Stanford marshmallow experiment03:04Leveling up a character in video games03:33Good works, karma and the self-fulfilling prophecy05:25Alchemy: turning the lead of the body into gold06:44Jack and the Beanstalk: magic beans and the house of giants08:30Waiting on the magic beans: proofs that compound in meditation10:16A spiritual inheritance waiting in the brain11:20The four proofs as the route into the right hippocampus