Culadasa February 2019 Patreon Q&A Catch-Up

0:04 - How do you keep mindful during intellectual activities like reading, writing, studying? 10:09 - Is it important to use the sensations of the breath at the abdomen as the meditation object when you practice at stages further then stage 4? 15:02 - The importance for a teacher to really clarify what it is that the student wants to know. The importance for a student to formulate the question in such a way that the answer you get really is what you want to know. 16:30 - Question about awareness of feelings and emotions. Past conditioning that doesn´t allow people to experience feelings properly and the role of attachment, language and relationships. And how meditation can help to purify these past conditioning. 30:47 - Dulness because of external tiredness (for example when there wasn´t enough sleep last night) is often very difficult to conquer. It is possible to practice through the stages but there are often dreamlike thoughts and forgetting. What to do? What do you think of drinking coffee or thee before meditation? 36:08 - Navigational guidance to the mind system through the physical process of dying. 39:32 - Differences and similarities between guided meditations and hypnosis. 1:01:02 - What are the differences (and similarities) between expanding peripheral metacognitive awareness with the practice of choiceless awareness (and mahasi noting practice)? 1:10:46 - The realization of the non-duality of being and non-being which is the deepest realization of emptiness. 1:20:22 - Health update Culadasa Buy Culadasa's books on Amazon: amazon.com/author/culadasa Follow Culadasa on Facebook: www.facebook.com/Culadasa.John.Yates Much more at: http://culadasa.com/