Nondual Guided Meditation with Michael Taft
Mental imagery is a significant component of pondering for a human being. Nevertheless, How much of this mental imagery is on the market to conscious introspection varies widely between individuals. Some people see a whole lot of mental images on a regular basis, some (consciously) experience almost none, and most are somewhere in between. Nevertheless, the brain makes use of mental images on a regular basis to prepare points of self and world. For instance, now we have a mental map of our house that exists as a series of images, either consciously or semi-consciously. We reference these images on a regular basis (perhaps unconsciously) once we are remember how you can get from room to room, what’s in each room, and so forth.
For complex historical reasons, our society doesn’t reference mental images very much; we tend not to contemplate them to be “pondering.” Normally, once we say “pondering” what we mean is “mental talk.” This bias isn’t present in every culture. And there’s a case to be made that mental images are a far more vital and fundamental aspect of pondering than mental talk. In spite of everything, animals evolved eyes lots of of tens of millions of years before articulate speech, and presumably the power to generate mental images evolved lots of of tens of millions of years before the power to generate mental speech. So it’s probable that mental imagery functions at a much deeper and more fundamental level of the brain, and concept that is congruent with the proven fact that for thus many individuals mental imagery is simply available at a semi-conscious level (before sensitizing themselves to it in meditation).
One in every of the essential goals of nondual meditation is to see the constructedness of our sense of self and world. Because mental images play such a fundamental role in that constructedness, with the ability to consciously meditate upon them and see their emptiness (i.e. notice their constructedness) is crucial to deepening awakening. On this guided meditation, we dig in and do vipashyana on mental imagery.
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