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Animals are responsive to predation risk, often seeking safer habitats at the cost of foraging rewards.
Prey were more likely to avoid detection in complex habitats containing a higher abundance of obstacles; however, if detected, prey escape probability was dependent on both the abundance of refuges and obstacles and the predator's relative performance capabilities.
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CRUEL NATR X CRUEL NATURAL SELECTION
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BIOLOGY = SURVIVAL AND REPRODUCTION SAR
BIOLOGY SAR IS SAR- SELF
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BBTBR ADVAITA SAKSHI WITNESS
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A The important thing to understand is, all these concepts were not originally created to convey any scientific truths about the world. They are only made as teaching devices or aids. The only thing which has to be focused on is how to make the distinction between everything that is observed and the one which observes everything. It all boils down to the discrimination of subject and object.
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AIf you observe your mind, you will see that all you notice is a constant flow of thoughts and sensations. Both Buddhism and Science agree that there is really no consistent, unchanging, solid self (the self with the lower case ’s’) that exists. This may be very hard to believe or accept because the idea of a separate individual is so deep rooted that you may consider this as a joke. It may even feel threatening because this self-concept is something that you always want to protect and enhance.
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A Osho says about dynamic meditation: “This is a meditation in which you have to be continuously alert, conscious, aware, whatsoever you do.The first step, breathing; the second step, catharsis; the third step, the mantra, 'Hoo.'Remain a witness. Don’t get lost. It is easy to get lost. While you are breathing you can forget; you can become one with the breathing so much that you can forget the witness. But then you miss the point. Breathe as fast, as deep as possible, bring your total energy to it, but still remain a witness. Observe what is happening as if you are just a spectator, as if the whole thing is happening to somebody else, as if the whole thing is happening in the body and the consciousness is just centered and looking. This witnessing has to be carried in all the three steps. And when everything stops, and in the fourth step you have become completely inactive, frozen, then this alertness will come to its peak."
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HPPY DTH - LET GO , NOTHING ELSE TO DO - A WATTS
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WA WITNESS ALLOWING SAKSHI VASATI
Nothing. Or Everything. Depending on your orientation and personal preference.
I coined the term Sakshi (Witnessing) Vasati (Abiding or Allowing) because, out of my own 45 years of experience practicing virtually every method of meditation out there, simple witnessing and allowing everything to be as it is, allowing all phenomena to rise and fall dispassionately, without engaging or involvement, proved to be the two cornerstones of true meditation. Every other form, including mantra japa, kriya meditation, vipassana, body scan, kundalini, focusing on specific chakras and many, many more, all seemed to include some amount of ‘manipulation.’ And I was clear that, as long as the individual ‘ego’ was trying to manipulate, to ‘make something happen’ or reach a certain ‘state’ through their ‘own’ (ego again) meditative efforts, that was consistently counter-productive to realizing the ego was illusion and allowing it to dissolve.
In the end, “we” can’t ‘make ourselves enlightened’ through any efforts of our illusory ego - that would be a built-in oxymoron.
But when we simply witness and allow everything (and I mean everything) to be as it is, ego, which is nothing more or less than our argument with Reality, no longer is in argument with It, so it just dissolves, disappears. I simply found this to be a much more direct form of meditation, rather than trying to make something happen. So I joined the words Sakshi and Vasati and wrote the book “Watching Your Life - Meditation simplified and demystified.”
I’ve gotten responses from some who read the book and started practicing this method. Some said, “It’s good, but it takes time to let go of my attachment & identification to all the things rising & falling in my mind, so I’m not yet experiencing all the benefits yet.” Which is perfect, because that’s why any method of meditation is a long practice, a marathon…not a sprint. And of course, which part of you would be looking for the ‘benefits?’ The ego/mind :-) The very part you are wanting to let go of. So what do you get to do? Witness that ego desire for ‘personal benefits’ and allow everything to be as it is, not as it will be later when you ‘get the benefits. That’s perfect, you are on the right track.
Others have said it may be too simple and direct a form of meditation for them, and I totally respect that. And still others have written to me personally to tell me reading and practicing Sakshi Vasati has literally changed their life. If only one person had reported that, it would have been worth offering this method and writing the book, but there have been many.
Sakshi Vasati is nothing new. Elements of witnessing and allowing have formed the cornerstone of different schools of Zen, dzogchen, and other Buddhist and Vedanta meditations for millennia. So I cannot take credit for inventing anything new - it’s definitely old wine in new bottles. Many modern teachers, the world over, teach some form of this ‘true meditation.’
And as I said at the beginning, whether this method will be a right fit and become your ‘best meditation friend’ for you is strictly dependent on your taste and temperament. In many of my Quora answers, I have made two things quite clear: No form of meditation ‘brings you enlightenment.’ And even though the student often follows the teachers instructions to the “T” when first practicing, every student eventually makes a few internal adjustments to suit their particular needs and preferences. And of course, just about everyone’s method of meditation evolves over time anyway, as they find that letting go of certain practices and incorporating certain new twists really works well for them.
So I offer Sakshi Vasati humbly, and hope that it gives you a great foundation for a life of…you guessed it…watching every phenomena (including yourself) dispassionately and allowing everything to be exactly as it is. It is instant freedom.
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A EGO V WITNESS
Ego always searches for some meaning. It pushes you to collect some meanings and definitions of a fictitious entity that you carry in your head, which you think is ‘you’. By assigning some attributes, goals and a story, you have defined yourself as a person separate from the whole existence. Awakening dawns when any search for meaning completely disappears.
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A ANANDA
So, people don’t taste the absolute reality in its purity as long as they are in duality. But once a person is liberated, his experience of reality is pure. This way of experiencing cannot be put into words. The word bliss is just an indication to let you know that it feels good. But it is not exactly like the experiential happiness or pleasure. It is more like an extremely peaceful, satisfied, quite ordinary, guilt-free, conflictless, self-less experience of life with a sense of innocence. It is doesn’t feel like anything new but feels like something quite natural and ordinary. You also feel like you have already known it. You have a sense of wonder like a child and a mind similar to a child. It is not a distinct experience, the type which comes and goes. It is not an altered state of consciousness either. It feels more authentic and real than the conceptualized self and it feels like there is a synchronicity with the whole existence. You feel boundless and weightless. This experience of reality is ananda.
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NIRVANA- PHEW
WATTS
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SUNYAVADI V MAYAVADI
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WITNESS- A LOT ODF SENSORY DEPTIVATION
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VASNA VRITTI KARMA
Because of our intentions, we also develop mental tendencies which make us to repeatedly act in a certain way. These tendencies are called vasanas. How vasanas are formed can be explained by the psychological concept called operant conditioning, a learning process which shapes behaviours. We all already know this but I will go ahead and explain what it means. It is a simple concept: If you get rewarded in some way by doing an action, you tend to repeat that action or behaviour. if you get rewarded by not doing an action, you tend not to repeat that action. Similarly, if you can avoid a punishment (anything that is unpleasant) by doing an action, you will repeat that behaviour. if you get punished by doing an action, you will tend to avoid that action.
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A The concept of superimposition (adhyasa) is the core of Vedanta. It says that the reason for our suffering is ignorance (avidya) which happens because of superimposition. What is superimposition? You superimpose what is not you on you. Superimposing what is not Self on Self is ignorance. You mistake different things for Self when you are not any of them.
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ALL PRESENT KNOWLEDGE IS MEMORY
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A Self-knowledge is a term given to the removal of the superimposition. Once you experientially realize that you are not separate from existence, once you no longer consider yourself as a body or mind, you have got Self-knowledge
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