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2021 A New Year… Meditation and Life

Vern 0 Comments ang thong, flat mind, flatline mind, meditation, sayadaw

I’ve done little with meditation this year. I just haven’t felt it. I’ve had things to take care of and

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Meditation – Numbness – Stillness – Peace

Vern 0 Comments meditation numbness, meditation stillness, peaceful mind, stillness of mind

Meditation Journal Entry from 1999 one just finished meditating for a half hour. A fairly blank peace came over the

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Fatness Feeling During Meditation | 1998

Vern 0 Comments fatness feeling meditation, meditation expansion, meditation growing feeling

Meditation Journal Entry about the Fatness Feeling I meditated two nights ago on the futon in one of the bedrooms

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Disenchantment Wipes Out All Attachment | 1998

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Disenchantment or, Non-Attachment Arises Over the past couple of days (this is sometime in 1998) while meditating I haven’t written

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Meditation and Numbness, No Body, No Self | 1998

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Meditation, Numbness, No body, No Self I read part of J. Krishnamurti’s book, Commentaries on Living at the bookstore. (in

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Changing States of Consciousness While Meditating | 1998

Vern 0 Comments consciousness shift, meditation and consciousness, mind shift

Meditation Journal Entry from 1998 Mind Shift… Conscious Dimension Shift… Sitting in the reclining chair with my feet up on

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Emotions, Spontaneous Mindfulness | 1997

Vern 0 Comments mindful, mindfulness and meditation, spontaneous mindfulness

Meditation Journal Entry – 1997 Meditation tonight. Shut off lights, stared at the orange glow from incense. It was easy

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Numbness, Missing Body Parts | 1998

Vern 0 Comments body numbness meditation, meditating numbness, numbness of body

1998 Meditation Journal entry The numbness is very strange… it is like the body is missing… absent… or is it

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Meditation Journal Entry 25 | 1998

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I just meditated for 25-40 mins. In the blue room of the house. The mind became calm eventually–but followed many

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Meditation Re-Starts Journal Day 1 | 1998

Vern 0 Comments meditating peace, meditation, meditation and society

Meditation Journal 1998 This morning at maybe 6:30 as one was sitting on the balcony of our 7th floor hotel

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Day 4 – Intensive Meditation Practice

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 4 In the evening I sat in the back of the apartment on the

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Day 6 – Intensive Meditation Practice

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 6 Today I awoke without any back pain at all. None. It was surreal.

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Day 8 – Intensive Meditation Practice

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 8 Virtually no back pain still. My ‘luck’ is holding… If I thought it

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Day 11 – Intensive Meditation Practice

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 11 Today started out with rain, ended with rain and had lots of rain

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Day 10 – Intensive Meditation Experience

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 10 Unending Mindfulness I thought of changing the title a couple of times –

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Day 9 – Intensive Meditation Experience

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 9 It rained all last night – intense rain. I don’t know if this

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Day 18 – Intensive Meditation Practice

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 18 It has been nice weather here for the past week. I spent a

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Day 3 – Intensive Meditation Practice

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May 2009 Intensive Meditation | Day 3 Today went well. I had a lot of things to do today but

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Day 7 – Intensive Meditation Practice

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After yesterday I didn’t know what to expect today. Today was just a regular day, but there was no stress

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Body Dying Dream

Vern 0 Comments body dying dream, dying in dream, I am dying dream

This occurred in about 1997. I wake up from sleeping (in my dream). I go into the living room area

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Day 2 – Intensive Practice

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Meditation Journal Today began with rain, ended with rain, and as I sit here the next morning – it’s raining.

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New Articles Section

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I added a new ARTICLES section on the lower right side of every page in the sidebar. It looks like

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Various Meditation – Outside, Walking, Mirror

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Walking, Outside, Mirror Meditation – 1998 Sitting in the garage on the jacuzzi pad and towels one couldn’t get focused

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Mirror Meditation – Looking at Self as Meditating

Vern 1 Comment disappearing body meditation, disappearing head, meditation with mirror, mirror meditation

Meditating on the spa in the garage today in the morning 7:30. There was an instant calmness and emptiness that

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Meditation at Suan Mokkh Temple and Thoughts on Reality

Vern 0 Comments Buddhadasa Bhikku, Buddhist monks in Thailand, Garden of Liberation, meditation in thailand, Suan Mokkh art, Suan Mokkh Buddhist temple

What is Suan Mokkh Temple Like for Meditation on Your Own? I wandered around Suan Mokkh again today. My family

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Mountain Climb, Flat Mind, and a Question

Vern 0 Comments clear mind, flat mind, flatline mind, thoughtless mind

March 8, 2015 I haven’t written here in a while. My foot felt OK today so I climbed the steps

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Pre-Jhana Levels – Experience

Vern 1 Comment meditation 1998, meditation experiences, pre-jhana meditation

I found this post on an old backup CD-ROM I have. I had posted to some meditation group about some

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The Feeling of “Me”

Vern 0 Comments what is me, where is the me, who are you

Alan Watts, one of my favorite speakers, has said that the feeling of ourselves, the feeling of the tangible self

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Is 2014 the Year I Meditate Again?

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This past year, 2013, has been rather torturous. I’ve never felt more lost. I don’t know what to focus on

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Meditation State – I Am the Noise

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Note – This is an old journal article I wrote in 1998 or so. I don’t have the date written

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Mind Shift While Rollerblading – Shifted Consciousness

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Mindfulness While Rollerblading… Mind Shift While rollerblading with Fern I noticed that when I looked down at the pavement there

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A Meditation Poem

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“Endless Mind…” Let me sit a while body mass dissipates leaves sponge-like empty form fingers, arms & legs all gone

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The Process – Meditation Mystery…

Vern 0 Comments meditation experiences, meditation mystery, meditation process, the process

This a.m. while sitting on the balcony of our 7th floor hotel room in Melbourne one was not trying to

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The White Elephant in my Head

Vern 0 Comments jhana, jhana changes, jhana mind, meditation and jhana, white elephant

You know the saying, there is a white elephant in the room? Well, there is one in my head. It’s

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The World is Illusion

Vern 0 Comments meditation visual field changes, mind illusion, visual illusion meditation, visual input interpretation

This occurred on Dec 2, 2011 at the top of a small mountain on the temple grounds of Wat Tham

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Cloudy Head – Uncreative State

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I’ve been feeling this for weeks now, it’s pretty impossible to describe, but I’ll give it a try. There’s nothing

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Still State of Mind

Vern 0 Comments flat mind, no mind, silent mind, still mind

Published July 6, 2010. Page updated 8 March 2019. There is still – after a couple of years now, I

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Enlightenment Dreams?

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A little status update – I’ve not written for a while – nothing really happening. I’m not consciously sitting at

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Short Dream: I’m in the Way

Vern 0 Comments dream, force, i am in the way, power, strange dream

I just remembered this dream last night, though I had it about 2 weeks ago. I thought I wrote a

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Layers of Reality 6-21-09

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Today I went to one of my favorite quiet spots. I layed down and watched the mind as it responded

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What Am I Looking At? 5-31-09

Vern 0 Comments balanced mind, empty mind, equanimity, non-dualism, silent mind

Over the last few months 6? 8? there’s been this constant stillness of mind that is always there. If I

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Nibbana, Nirvana, or Hypnotic State? 5-23-09

Vern 0 Comments hypnosis, meditation state, nirvana, strange state

sat 23 may 09 Without writing a book about this… I want to mention it I guess because if at

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Constant Stillness 5-16-09

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Over the last few months, there has been this constant stillness of mind that is always there. If I stop

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Glowing Head | Strange Dream

Vern 0 Comments dreams, end of suffering, enlightenment, glowing head, gratitude, head dream, meditation dream, nirvana, strange dream

This dream occurred on 5-1-2008. [This page last updated: 8 March 2019] Yesterday I lay on the floor in my

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Buddhism | The Truth of It

Vern 1 Comment Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Brahmavamso, buddhism, buddhist belief

I wrote this on April 23, 2009. [This text last updated on 8 March 2019] I’m not Buddhist per se.

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Meditation Experiences Timeline 4-21-08

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I was just thinking that it would be good for me to put down in writing some sort of timeline

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No Mind – Perception Shift 4-11-09

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I sat the other evening (4/11). It was about 8pm and I had no motivation to do anything else. Not

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Mind Stops… Hiccups Too! 4-9-08

Vern 0 Comments controlling hiccups, meditation, meditation states, no thought, stopping hiccups

This morning I was anxious to eat breakfast. I had kow pad gai (skinless chicken breast over jasmine rice). It

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Layers of Reality 3-16-08

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Last night an odd experience came to me as the body prepared for sleep. I went into one of the

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Unsettled Feeling 3-7-08

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Finish the Journey, or Not? I’ve gone for a couple of months without meditating since stopping in September after realizing

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