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