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Meditation State – I Am the Noise

Vern 0 Comments dissociative consciousness, i am the noise, mediatation experiences, meditation state, meditative states, state of mind, states of meditation

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

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

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

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Reaction, Ego, Emotions Return 9-7-07

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Reaction, ego, emotionality all return with a vengeance! It seems that the last 5 days were filled with the mind

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No Me to Focus on Breathing 9-3-07

Vern 0 Comments concentrated mind, equanimity, meditation, meditation journal, meditation state, peace of mind, stable mind

I was at Wat Tum Sua again today (Buddhist temple in southern Thailand). The weather was nice, cool and windy.

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Comments on No Thought State of Yesterday 8-31-07

Vern 0 Comments jhana, meditation state, mind not thinking, no thought, strange state of mind

8-31-07 Comments on the process from yesterday. I added a lot more here that I forgot to say during yesterday’s

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No Thoughts. No “Me”. 8-30-07

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Over 6 hours of no thought… no reaction. No emotion. No extra work being done by the mind. A state

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Meditating in Loud, Distracting Environments 8-28-09

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In this video, I went over what I’ve been doing over the past few days with meditation. I’ve been experimenting

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Fatness Feeling and No Mind Center 8-25-09

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Fatness and no mind center… I climbed up to the Buddhist shrine at the top of the hill at Wat

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No Mind 8-23-07

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A feeling of no mind came today. I sat for 30 minutes last night before I slept. Before I meditated

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Unlinked Mind 8-20-07

Vern 0 Comments meditation experience, meditation state, strange mind state, unlinked mind

Thought stopped and mind unlinked. Could not understand simple objects. This video and audio is kind of funny as I

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