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 . ''Sayagyi U'' [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_Khin | Ba Khin ]]  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ba_Khin | Sayagyi U Ba Khin ]]

Waking Up

A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Sam Harris, Hillsdale 204 H3161w 2014 , Simon and Schuster

  • meditators should have a "healthy sense of self", no schitzophrenia

  • Advaita Vedanta non-dualist, no "higher" external being

  • Harris: Stanford BA philosopy 2000, UCLA PhD Neuroscience 2009, April 1967

  • vipassana Mindfulness (sati), clear awareness, "free mind from suffering"

  • Mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation (metta)
  • consciousness without the self, avoiding suffering
  • visual "blind spot"
  • decreases representation in the DMN Default Mode Network, self representation
  • LSD alters consciousness, but uncontrollable extremes

Harris's approximate classifications (not necessarily mine!)

"good"

  • Swami Vivekananda 1893 Vedanta
  • Theravada Buhddism
  • Dzogchen: Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
  • H.W.L. Poonja
  • Sayadaw U Pandita
  • Douglas Harding

"bad"

  • Helena Blavatsky
  • Joseph Smith
  • Sri Aurobindo
  • J.Z. Knight / Ramtha

  • Marshall Applewhite,Heaven's Gate

  • Rashneesh / OSHO
  • Gurdjieff, Ouspensky
  • Chopyam Trungpa Rinpoche / Osel Tendzin

Local meditation, not Harris

Vipassana Meditation

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