Roger Thisdell is a long time meditator who over the years has managed to increase his baseline of well-being to a level much higher than the norm. Rodger's mind now features a permanent sense of centerlessness where there is a lack of the sense of an epistemic agent at the center. He aims to help others achieve similar well-being, unperturbability, and freedom from suffering.
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0:00 Intro 3:15 What is suffering? 4:29 What is contraction? 8:12 Why does contraction entail suffering? 9:21 The relationship between truth and freedom 10:58 How do we defabricate experience? 13:57 Rodger’s spiritual path 15:21 Practices for defabricating experience 17:37 What are the stages of awakening 18:34 Different paths to the same thing? 24:23 What’s Rodger’s current experience like? 29:16 There is only negative valence and its attenuation 35:16 Does taking a bunch of MDMA not add positive valence? 37:35 The void at the center of the soul 39:18 Meditation instructions 46:37 How does insight work? 49:56 Insight practice on the sense of separate self 54:57 The will as a way of maintaining separate self 57:55 Cessation, true nature, and neither perception nor non-perception 1:04:35 Practicing the jhanas 1:16:25 Cessation and nirvikalpa samadhi 1:19:47 Is the void preferable to highly defabricated consciousness? 1:24:11 How does this all fit into the 21st century? 1:26:40 Using insights from meditation for architecting new minds 1:28:48 Immoral behavior as a failure to see the truth 1:30:23 Where to follow and find out more about Rodger
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