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> Watch sensations come and go while refraining from moving your attention in reaction to what you're watching. This sounds like standard "mindfulness" meditat
by vosper 2y ago
> Watch sensations come and go while refraining from moving your attention in reaction to what you're watching.
This sounds like standard "mindfulness" meditation, to me.
- lewispollard 2y agoIt is. Samatha is often contrasted with vipassana in the Buddhist traditions. Samatha being calm concentration, vipassana being analytic insight meditation. "Standard mindfulness", i.e. the distillation of Theravada Buddhist insight techniques into the western mainstream, is rooted in vipassana. However, when you learn vipassana from a religious lineage, the various teachers and monasteries have slightly different techniques and progressions of the practice from what we'd consider "standard mindfulness".
- swayvil 2y agoI like to call it "turning into a big fluffy cloud".