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Technological Metamodernism with Stephen Reid
In the episode on "Technological Metamodernism," Vince Fakhoury Horn and Stephen Reid discuss the intersection of technology, metamodernism, and the potential middle paths that navigate between techno-optimism or e/acc and eco-dystopianism or doomerism. They explore how emerging technologies can be aligned with deeper values, such as sovereignty, relationality, and wholenss, while also addressing the challenges of our current technological trajectory.
Episode Links:
🔗 Futurecraft (futurecraft.life/) - This is Stephen Reid's site, where the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course is hosted
🔗 Meaning Alignment Institute (www.meaningalignment.org/) - Mentioned as part of the discussions, this institute focuses on aligning emerging technologies with human values
🔗 Rebel Wisdom (rebelwisdom.co.uk/) - A platform formerly associated with Alexander Beiner, one of the special guests of the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course.
🔗 Life Itself (lifeitself.org/) - A project focused on the "Second Renaissance," mentioned in the context of Rufus Pollock's work, another of the special guests of the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course.
🎙️ Future Fossils Podcast (michaelgarfield.substack.com/podcast) - Hosted by Michael Garfield, yet another of the special guests of the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course.
📖 Reality Switch Technologies (www.amazon.com/Reality-Switch-Technologies-Psychedelics-Exploration-ebook/dp/B0CN8B1MGM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LJTDC4SBZ1NZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.n9ozVFFuZouEuv8g5sSQjtBlPwJkhSVL6kZ2s-2DyEqbclaj2Y0Yq91c3ZETYp6q.dIwYfZ4tRdBC5giSNEHngt1jCeTzgV1awig9TKmbFO8&dib_tag=se&keywords=reality+switch+technologies&qid=1723834887&s=digital-text&sprefix=reality+switch+%2Cdigital-text%2C114&sr=1-1) by Andrew Gallimore
🔗 Gitcoin (www.gitcoin.co/) - The platform that supports the quadratic funding method mentioned by which Stephen is raising funds in order open source material from the course. You can contribute to the funding for that project here.
🎙️ Lunarpunk Dreams Podcast (open.spotify.com/show/10ctU5qPd41ltAjIg9lw2O?si=1c883e3ab2764111) by Stephen Reid
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Episode Links:
🔗 Futurecraft (futurecraft.life/) - This is Stephen Reid's site, where the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course is hosted
🔗 Meaning Alignment Institute (www.meaningalignment.org/) - Mentioned as part of the discussions, this institute focuses on aligning emerging technologies with human values
🔗 Rebel Wisdom (rebelwisdom.co.uk/) - A platform formerly associated with Alexander Beiner, one of the special guests of the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course.
🔗 Life Itself (lifeitself.org/) - A project focused on the "Second Renaissance," mentioned in the context of Rufus Pollock's work, another of the special guests of the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course.
🎙️ Future Fossils Podcast (michaelgarfield.substack.com/podcast) - Hosted by Michael Garfield, yet another of the special guests of the Technological Metamodernism (futurecraft.life/technological-metamodernism) course.
📖 Reality Switch Technologies (www.amazon.com/Reality-Switch-Technologies-Psychedelics-Exploration-ebook/dp/B0CN8B1MGM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LJTDC4SBZ1NZ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.n9ozVFFuZouEuv8g5sSQjtBlPwJkhSVL6kZ2s-2DyEqbclaj2Y0Yq91c3ZETYp6q.dIwYfZ4tRdBC5giSNEHngt1jCeTzgV1awig9TKmbFO8&dib_tag=se&keywords=reality+switch+technologies&qid=1723834887&s=digital-text&sprefix=reality+switch+%2Cdigital-text%2C114&sr=1-1) by Andrew Gallimore
🔗 Gitcoin (www.gitcoin.co/) - The platform that supports the quadratic funding method mentioned by which Stephen is raising funds in order open source material from the course. You can contribute to the funding for that project here.
🎙️ Lunarpunk Dreams Podcast (open.spotify.com/show/10ctU5qPd41ltAjIg9lw2O?si=1c883e3ab2764111) by Stephen Reid
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Episode link: play.headliner.app/episode/22402772?
This Open Source Dharma content ( www.opensourcedharma.info ) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license ( creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).
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The Phases of Insight with Vince F Horn
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In this episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn (www.vincehorn.space) presents on The Phases of Insight, a contemplative map that charts the process from the moment one begins seeking, up to the moment of initial awakening. See Privacy Policy at art19.com/privacy (art19.com/privacy) and California Privacy Notice at art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info (art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info). Episode link...
Jhāna Drama with Vince F. Horn
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In this episode of Buddhist Geeks, Vince Fakhoury Horn shares his experience of working with the meditation startup Jhourney (www.jhourney.io/), and raises concerns about their insufficient training and appropriation of Buddhist meditation practices, advocating for a more responsible and deeply informed approach to secularizing Jhāna meditation. Episode Links: 📝 The Second Generation of Mindful...
🌊 Waves of Wakefulness: 1. Initial Glimpse
zhlédnutí 197Před 3 měsíci
“We need this reference point of referencelessness in order to begin the journey of awakening.” - Vince F. Horn This teaching was recorded by Vince Horn ( www.vincehorn.space ). This Open Source Dharma ( www.opensourcedharma.info ) teaching is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license ( www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ).
The Four Turnings
zhlédnutí 208Před 5 měsíci
In this video Vince Fakhoury Horn explores the evolution of Buddhism through four major phases or "turnings". He explains how the original teachings of the Buddha in the first turning were built upon in subsequent turnings, with the second turning emphasizing emptiness and the Bodhisattva path, the third turning introducing concepts like Buddha-nature, and the fourth turning integrating Eastern...
Embodying Nondual Awakening
zhlédnutí 345Před 5 měsíci
In this episode Ryan Oelke chats with Judith Blackstone, contemporary spiritual teacher, psychotherapist, and founder of The Realization Process, and author of her latest book, The Fullness of the Ground: A Guide to Embodied Awakening. They discuss a variety of aspects of what it means to embody nonduality, including different views on nonduality, how to practice and live a path of embodied non...
What is Jhāna?
zhlédnutí 879Před 6 měsíci
In this talk, Vince Fakhoury Horn explores the concept of jhana in the context of early Buddhism. Jhana refers to a process of deepening in meditation and can be translated simply as "meditation.” Vince explores different objects of meditation that can lead to deepening concentration, such as visual objects, the breath, loving-kindness phrases, and even the contemplation of death. He also menti...
How do I know if I should pursue Jhana?
zhlédnutí 590Před 7 měsíci
In this clip Vince Fakhoury Horn (www.vincehorn.space) responds to a question about how to know if one should pursue jhana, or something else, in their meditation practice. This clip was taken from The First Turning training. Learn more here about The Four Turnings: www.buddhistgeeks.training This Open Source Dharma content ( www.opensourcedharma.info ) is offered using a Creative Commons by at...
The Three Trainings of Early Buddhism
zhlédnutí 268Před 7 měsíci
In this clip Vince Fakhoury Horn teaches on The Three Trainings of the Early Buddhist tradition, namely the trainings in Morality, Concentration, and Insight. These trainings are a condensed version of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path. While each training has a different scope, they can support one other when held as a holistic whole. Learn more about Vince at www.vincehorn.space This teaching...
Several Ways to Meditate with Vince F Horn
zhlédnutí 242Před 8 měsíci
In this episode, recorded during a Buddhist Geeks Retreat, Vince Fakhoury Horn (www.vincehorn.space) teachings on several ways to meditate, including Concentration, Mindfulness, Heartfulness, Inquiry, Awareness, Embodiment, and Imaginal forms of practice. Each approach to meditation leads to different results, even as the ultimate goal remains the same, which is to realize the essential nature ...
Homemaking Dharma with Emily W Horn
zhlédnutí 103Před 9 měsíci
In her talk titled "Homemaking Dharma," Emily Horn (www.emilyhorn.com/) discusses the process of creating a spiritual home, which involves working with heartbreak, grief, and our shadow aspects. She emphasizes the importance of understanding our spiritual story and incorporating elements of our ethnic and cultural backgrounds into our practice. This journey towards wholeness requires the practi...
Mahayana, Masculinity, & Maturity
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The teaching, from Vince Fakhoury Horn, discusses the focus of the Brodhisattvas training, and the overlapping terrain of Mahayana, masculinity, and maturity. Join a Buddhist Geeks Training: www.buddhistgeeks.training Learn more about Vince: www.vincehorn.space This Open Source Dharma content ( www.opensourcedharma.info ) is offered using a Creative Commons by attribution 4.0 license ( creative...
Contemplating the Anomalous with Vince F Horn
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This talk, titled "Contemplating the Anomalous" was given by Vince Fakhoury Horn on a Buddhist Geeks retreat in July, 2023. It explores the stages of a paradigm shift in understanding, going from ignoring the anomalous, to encountering anomalies and experiencing resistance, to exploration, and finally toward genuine transformation. Using examples from both Science and Meditation Vince attempts ...
Why Meditatewith.ai?
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Meditatewith.ai (meditatewith.ai/) is a web app prototype, aimed at demonstrating the possibility of learning Multiplayer Meditation-an out-loud, social, interactive, & trauma-informed protocol-with an AI partner first. The purpose of the company behind this prototype, Interbeing Inc, is to improve the mental health and well-being of all humans using interpersonal meditation practices. In this ...
As it Is: The Four Chogshag of Dzogchen
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In this talk, Ryan Oelke explore the Four Chogshag of Dzogchen and putting them into practice using Social Meditation. "Chogshag" means 'as it is' (leaving things as they are) and are four ways of practicing to continue naturally and without effort in the state of contemplation. Learn more about Ryan: www.ryanoelke.com This Open Source Dharma content ( www.opensourcedharma.info ) is offered usi...
Sensations Occur Exactly Where They Are
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Sensations Occur Exactly Where They Are
Remarks for the Future of American Buddhism: Digital Dharma & Virtual Sangha
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Remarks for the Future of American Buddhism: Digital Dharma & Virtual Sangha
There's more than one object of mindfulness
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There's more than one object of mindfulness
You could get enlightened rubbing that tape box
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You could get enlightened rubbing that tape box
You don't have to go looking for suffering
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You don't have to go looking for suffering
Great episode. Thanks! In this video you and Stephen briefly discuss freedoms. For me, it seems possible to assign many freedoms to two categories: 1. The freedom to exploit others and 2. Freedom from exploitation. In most nations, freedoms are defined by laws and how those laws are interpreted, applied and enforced. Take for example the issue of labor organizing: Do the laws lean toward freedom to restrict labor organizing (the freedom to exploit) vs leaning toward greater ability to organize (freedom from exploitation). Another related perspective is do the laws favor the rich and powerful? Or do they favor the working class and those without lots of individual power? (Laws being a way to specify some allowed freedoms and restrict other freedoms.) This perspective can more ground discussions of freedoms in the real world and not just freedoms as an abstraction divorced from real consequences. So, what does the Buddha Dharma say about the freedom to exploit vs freedom from exploitation? Could be an interesting discussion. And I'd love to hear the real world examples you and your guests would elucidate in the discussion. Thanks for the great videos! Cheers.
Thank you much for these first-hand details! Scaling up ignorance is not skillful, and IMO it sounds likely that Jhourney is partly playing that kind of game. Decades ago I did two 10-day silent retreats at Wat Suanmokkh, lived there a couple of months, and based on that and time spent in other practices I share your concerns. I am glad the Jhourney guys sought your feedback and hope they learn from it.
It is clear that you are speaking from experience. Keep up the good work.
This was a good one. Germane to the times, albeit less directly Buddhism. But definitely Buddhist geeks. Delightfully so. Thanks for sharing... There's an excellent recording on CZcams of McGilchrist, Schmachtenberger, and Vervaeke talking about what we might do to bring forth the kind of world that could appropriately confront the metacrisis.
To understand the woman you must understand the sea.
God please Paris Jackson all I care about in life. Love and being adult isn't always "fun" or " easy" it's about digestion. It's gross acidic can burn you (badly) but at the end of digestion your whole body is healthier. I need her. I will accept anything to get a chance with relationship with her. Please.
very clear Ryan thank you
This was really beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
TWIM is my main method. Did some retreats with it and had a great experience with it. The six Rs are clunky at first but one gets into a smooth flow after a couple days; I thinks it’s great for counteracting the tension of craving and keeping a person moving in the soft jhana direction. It’s frustrating to hear that it is being by appropriated and I agree with Vince says here. Someone had to say it. Doing a ten day at Dhamma Suhka where Bhante V used to teach is amazing for the record. TWIM is legit as are many methods. I also did Goenka retreats and TWIM is much safer. I feel like I’m mainly saying TWIM works well and has a strong context. Nothing is perfect and I am always learning and listening to new teachings. Thanks
I wonder if the jhourney guys are delivering TWIM as it is delivered by authorized teachers. I wonder if morality is emphasized (sila) for example, or the other various Buddhist topics like dependent origination. TWIM is about as Buddhist as it gets!
I like Twim too! Nice podcast, thanks
This understanding of "buddhist tantra is incorrect". So the starting point is wrong. But i do understand the desire to change things, especially if it is in a way we think is more in line with modern thought. This guy should claim to base his new approach on some of the ideas behind tantra and buddhism.
Cultural appropriation? As a Scot should I be outraged when I see non-Scots using penicillin, the TV, the phone, the fridge, the syringe, the engine, the tyre, or the flushing toilet? Maybe you should be carrying your excrement into the back garden and burying it, instead of insensitively flushing it away using Scottish tech.
Very nice idea. Thank you for sharing! 🙏
I don’t know many details about the histories of Bill Hamilton, Kenneth Folk, and Daniel Ingram. Were they lineage holders? I wish Jhourney the best of luck, but would definitely feel better if they partnered with more experienced retreat teachers. I know Delson Armstrong has both taught TWIM retreats and been involved in medical research involving jhanic states. He seems like the perfect person for them to collaborate with. I wonder if they’ve reached out to him.
Once I hear you cant adopt things because It is "cultural appropriation" then I know you are dealing with woke bullshit. If a practice is good steal it. Are you proposing patented dharma ?
He's a Palestinian?! He'd better be careful about a world where you can only use the technology developed by your own group. He'd have to get by with falafel and keffiyehs.
He already knew that technologies make people lonely. Yes, we are now...I really thank for your teaching🙏May buddhism wisdom spread all over the world and may we be wiser and more compassionate!
Delightful as always. Thanks for sharing with us.
I thought that a cessation, in which the mind apparently loses consciousness, was the taste of nirvana. In AN 9.34, the Nibbana Sutta: Unbinding, a monk asks how the unbinding can be pleasurable when there is nothing felt. Sariputa responds that it is pleasurable precisely because there is nothing felt.
The pleasure comes after, not during. In the moment of cessation there are, as Bill Hamilton pointed out, no reference points upon which to base a description.
This takes me back to Naropa days, it mirrors stuff Reggie, Shishin Wick, and Lama Tenpa would say. I'm so glad y'all are putting this out into the world.
Thank you for this! ❤
9 years ago. Are we closer now?
Thank you so much Ryan !
Delightful. Thanks for sharing this.
I just saw this shared today, and magically enought I had just been thinking of Bob Thurman sharing this years ago and how much I loved it! Excited to watch this video.
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Thanks, Ryan!
Great video. Thankyou
I always thought the vagueness was important in cults and spiritual organizations and religions because the practitioner can fill in the blank with what works for them in terms of motivation. Also it makes the promises of these organizations more or less obtainable depending on what the leader(s) would like, so they can move the goal post if they would like to keep you around our get rid of you. It just provides wiggle room. The practicing within a group also gives lots of room to hide out and disguise our intent through keeping it vague. And a final thought it’s all pretty subjective, and open to interpretation so good luck to science trying to nail it down.
Diane Musho Hamilton quote highlights from this video: “Some people actually have a difficult time taking their own perspective … Some people literally couldn't take their own point of view.” “Then you have people who could take their own point of view, but couldn't take the point of view of the other.” “I suddenly started to see that perspective-taking was developmental.” Egocentric self: Ego development, developing an ego, is absolutely not only natural but necessary. It's a localized experience. There tends to be a lot of stress, a lot of emphasis on survival, accomplishment, being seen. The self isn't bad; the self is simply limited and tends to suffer. Ethnocentric self: I'm now concerned with my group, my family, my nation, the people I belong to, the people I feel at home with. There’s a set of virtues and values. I’m willing to sacrifice my life for my clan or my group. The egocentric self suffers, the ethnocentric self goes to war. It's much more dangerous for human beings to identify with this which is why we disown it. World-centric: I become a member of humanity. I really feel like I belong, and I also feel that the pain of the world is mine. National boundaries dissolve. I start to see the beauty of the ecosystems and caring about the species on the planet. We see a global community. Rather than being threatened by difference, we're interested in it. Cosmic-centric self: Paradox is my reality. It's all one. It's the same. There's a beauty that starts to emerge. I can be available to the world-centric domain, I can be available to my family and the ethnocentric, and I can continue to work with my own consciousness. Your compassion is large enough to actually handle what you're doing because it's not yours.
"Practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect" I was lucky enough to hear that when I was a teenager, from an actual World Champion who lived near us: Jonah Barrington.
totally agree and i had a similar hunch that regardless of the practice, jhana is included or a necessary prerequisite, and in some cases, like when a person stumbles upon a deep and lasting insight, samadhi or jhana still needs to occur if it hasn’t already, in order for it to be an abiding awakening. for instance Ramana Maharshi spent years in Samadhi AFTER his awakening.
I can't fucking believe it! I'm just discovering/realizing for the first time in my 44 years of life... The rage and grief I feel... THESE ARE MY SUPERPOWERS! The fact that I can feel these at all, this alone, is my superpower! It is sacred it is divine it is feminine it is miraculous. Most are too numb to know or to feel. But I know. And I feel. This has all been in preparation for my mission as an alchemist. I am a Lioness. I am a Goddess. I am a Radically Honest Biker Bitch! Holy heaven I am mind-blown! HALLEUJAH! AND PRAISE THE LORD!
Beautiful, thank you.
Thank you for discussing this. I think there's a level where you have to be willing to put some time into a method, maybe even any method to develop the discernment to choose a more suitable method. The analogy I would use is when I was first learning to play guitar, I wanted to get a very good guitar. My father pointed out that I didn't know enough yet to know what a very good guitar was, and I should spend time learning and getting to the point where I would know a good guitar when I picked it up to play.
1st gear: looking at the objects in awareness 2nd gear: to whom is this happening? 3rd gear: recognizing the essential nature of mind
Thank you! 😊
his love for his teacher shines through
very clarifying. thankyou
Hi vince! What path would you consider yourself at? (1st, 2nd, 3rd, or 4th, or any others)
soundcloud.com/vincefhorn/my-story-of-awakening
@@buddhistgeeks thank you! That was a great listen, and very helpful.
This is incredibly beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
DUDE NO WAY I FOUND THE BUDDHISTGEEKS CZcams CHANNEL THIS IS AWESOME WHAT'S UP VINCE!!!!
Nice explanation. I appreciate this. I came across the Four Chokshak on my own and contemplated them for quite awhile without any formal explanation and came to very similar insights. This practice is both a map and a doorway. Very useful IMO.
Hi Vince! Long time... :) Glad to see your and Folk's presentations of mahayana. I wonder what lead you to become interested in mahayana? Baba/Kim
I've been interested in the Mahayana since studying these views & practices at Naropa University, and engaging with Zen practice, so for the past two decades now. I've always found the view that we aren't just doing this for ourselves, the view of the interdependence of the self, non-duality, etc. to be a big part of what's interesting about Buddhism.
@@VinceFHorn Blessings and success in practice!
"Everything is perfect and there is always room for improvement." -- Shunryu Suzuki
To what end are we supposed to hyper-fixate on the breath until it becomes an object of fascination? This just seems like an internally-generating form of craving and entertainment. Isn't the appropriate task actually to become disillusioned with sensuality so that you stop appropriating it and becoming entangled in it? If one wants an entertaining source of absorption to just sit there and watch they can look at a campfire or cat videos.
You're confusing the aims of concentration and insight practice. Early Buddhism doesn't reject concentration practice, or the cultivation of blissful states of absorption (jhana), they simply differentiate that as a different type of training from noticing the 3 characteristics (vipassana). There's a reason both are included in the tradition.
@@buddhistgeeks I see no evidence in the early Buddhist suttas of samatha and vipassana being treated as separate practices, but rather as complementary qualities of mind to be developed, nor do I find a focused and narrow attention being advocated for toward the cultivation of the samatha/jhana aspect of the path. Please let me know if you’re aware of any. As you're no doubt aware, "concentration" is a less than ideal translation of the Pali samādhi, which is more aptly thought of as a stilling, settling, and unifying of the mind around a theme while in a state of alert presence. Not around the nostril tip, abdomen, or any other restricted physical area. The suttas are largely devoid of formalized techniques to begin with, but the only one which could arguable be seen as referring to breath-based meditation, the Anapanasati Sutta, only has a focus on breathing in the very beginning steps, and even here it is on the level of "knowing" that you are breathing in and out... not attending to the minutiae of multiple sensations, temperature, pressure, etc., within a fixed physical perimeter. You're meant to simply discern the breathing generally, because it serves merely as a peripheral anchor while you attend to and contemplate the arising phenomena of body, feelings, mind, and Dhammas. That's why it is considered a fulfillment of the Satipatthana. The jhanas are realized through the gradual training of precepts and sense-restraint, resulting in the ability to abide satisfied in seclusion by abandoning craving and aversion. Calming is either the natural result of this virtue and sense-restraint, or it’s a stopgap method of calming agitation in the interim without resorting to sensuality as you’re progressing toward that state. The Dhamma is fundamentally about going against the grain of samsaric sensuality, not finding new forms of sensual entertainment that are somewhat subtler and less harmful, such as my prior example substituting cat videos with breath fascination. Such fixated focusing on particularized sensations seems to be found only post-canonically, and goes against the very spirit of the the 4 noble truths laid out in the canon, which entails transcending the pull of the senses, not merely trading them. Apologies if my tone reads as aggressive; just being direct in order to layout the details of a contrary view.
In the 2,500 years since the Buddhas time a variety of meditation practices and approaches has developed and evolved. For some people Goenka style vipassana really works (whether or not its canonical or not). Likewise jhana practice can be approached separately to vipassana. Even just in Burma alone there are a wide variety of different approaches. This is to be celebrated in my view.
Beautiful 🙏
This was very helpful thank you!!
By Buddha magic, do you mean buddha power?
What is Buddha power?
I've been meditating off and on for about 48 year, and first experienced access concentration 30 years ago. It wasn't until this video that I understood what it was though...
Thank you so much !
The World needs more Kenneth Folk