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Notes from Andy
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Mastering your mind:
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- can you control yourself?
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- can you sit still physically?
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- can you control your mind?
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- can you concentrate on a simple object and nothing else?
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- can you have no thoughts?
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- can you free your mind from remembering the past or future?
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- can you have no visual images / sounds?
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- can you stop your inner monologue?
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How to meditate:
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- these steps are very gradual, not distinct steps:
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- master focusing in the present (1-2 years)
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- disregard the past and future
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- focus on noises in the present. can jump around or listen to all.
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- on failure gently pull back to the present
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- mastery when you can do this for an hour
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- can start with shorter sessions
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- master focusing only a single element in the present
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- for example, your breath
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- master stopping the monologue
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- stop talking to yourself
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- stop making comments
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- stop the chatter
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- master total absorption into that single element
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- deeper focus into the element
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- Samadhi state
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- can only experience your own, dont read the wiki
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- Andy reached this only once, he felt omnipotent
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- this becomes an intrinsic skill like talking and walking rather than a motor skill like throwing?
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- if you dont use it you lose it?
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- one you reach Samadhi your mind always meditates
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Naval theory:
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https://twitter.com/naval/status/1261481222359801856
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