Globway Global Wayfinding Meditation — an interactive reading of Mark Lippmann's protocol
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  • preliminary and introductory things ★
    • document-level meta-warning ★
    • epistemic status disclaimer ★
    • risks; maximally cautious warnings/directives (first-pass, without explanation) ★
    • but what actually makes it risky?; how do risks obtain, when they do? ★
    • an exoteric doctrine v0.2 ★
    • an esoteric doctrine ("going full buddhist?" / "is this full buddhist?" / "is this even buddhist?" / "never go full buddhist"\*) ★
    • introduction; getting over the hump; text interpretation ★
    • preconceiving, direct reifying [draft] ★
  • opinionated, telic, soteriological things ★
    • goal (draft) ★
    • end state (draft!) ★
    • no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part one ("goodness") ★
    • no fixed conceptualized goal or end state part two ("better") ★
    • meditation is concrete problem solving ★
    • wellbeing and sacrifice ★
    • ok-ness and cosmology ★
    • seamless hyphenation [draft] ★
    • other practices (draft) ★
  • practice preliminaries ★
    • timeline, mindset, trajectory, harm ★
      • raw hours ★
      • better to finish, and smoothly ★
      • a failure mode ★
      • meditation is not strength-training ★
      • entrenchment and active occlusion (layering); shoulds; pitfalls of inferred "mental actions" ★
      • extreme skill and extreme standards ★
      • physical sequelae ★
      • the end of your world (after adyashanti, maybe?) ★
      • drama ★
      • error propagation, wayfinding, grace of what minds are ★
      • on good and bad [draft] ★
      • conclusion ★
  • practice ★
    • nuts and bolts considerations ★
      • preliminaries and vacations; conceptualization as such ★
      • transitioning from other practices (re "sharp cutovers") ★
      • environment [and subtlety; (more) risks and rabbit holes] ★
      • movement ★
      • posture (section needs editing) ★
      • breath ★
      • states (draft) ★
      • "headyness"/"heady-ness"/"headiness" ★
      • "subtle energy" and "energy work" and mental models ★
      • brief draft comment on first-pass, seemingly separate magisteria ★
      • body, self-trust, sensory processing, meaning ★
      • but is it meditation? (a dialogue between J and Mark) ★
      • practice in daily life or no? ★
      • what about concrete/proximal problems? ★
      • how much and how often ★
      • what to do when ★
    • top-level practices/categories ★
      • meta practice [solo and otherwise] ★
        • meta protocol ★
          • collaborator formulations ★
            • collaborator formulation 1 (mh) ★
        • meta meta protocol ★
      • solo practice ("main protocol") ★
        • preliminary/auxiliary practices ★
        • main practice(s) ★
          • introduction ★
          • practices ★
            • p0 ★
            • p1 ★
            • p2 ★
            • p3 ★
            • p4 ★
            • p5 ★
            • p6 ★
            • p7 ★
            • p8 ★
            • p9 ★
            • p10 ★
            • p11 ★
            • p12 ★
            • p13 ★
            • p14 ★
            • p15 ★
            • p16 ★
            • p17 ★
            • p18 ★
            • p19 ★
            • p20 ★
            • p21 ★
            • p22 ★
            • p23 (stub) ★
            • p24 (experimental) ★
            • p25 ★
            • p26 ★
            • p27 (stub) ★
            • p28 (scratch notes) ★
            • p29 (stub/scratch) ★
            • p30 (stub) ★
            • p31 (draft) ★
            • p32 ★
            • p33 (scratch) ★
            • p34 (scratch dictated) ★
            • p35 (scratch) ★
            • p36 (scratch) ★
            • p37 (scratch dictated) ★
            • p38 (scratch dictated) ★
            • p39 ★
          • theory ★
            • incomplete, alternative renderings ★
      • creativity(/unsticking) protocol [solo and otherwise] ★
        • what to do when nothing's happening/working ★
        • creativity(/unsticking) protocol ★
      • interpersonal practice ★
        • formulation 1 (including Many Protocol) ★
        • formulation 2 ★
        • formulation 3 ★
        • formulation 4 ★
        • formulation 5 ★
        • formulation 6 ★
        • emotions(tm) and feelings(tm) in interpersonal processing vs meditation (alpha draft) ★
        • social honor(?) versus eternal soul theory of mind/identity (stub) ★
        • on friendship and (found) family (stub) ★
        • fight-fights (draft) ★
        • scratch notes ★
  • lists and more ★
    • nonmonotonicity ★
    • definitions ★
    • undefined and explications ★
    • bodymindenvironment ★
    • can’t-look-yet ("avoidance") ★
    • systematicity, ontologies, phenomenological and otherwise ★
    • exhaustivity and bottlenecks ★
    • ordering matters / order matters ★
    • (mental) action and the attentional manifold ★
    • the use of the will ★
    • a note on force (plus a brief mention of "redo-to-undo") ★
    • a brief note on effort ★
    • more on "undo" ★
    • meditating by coincidence ★
    • failure and other seemingly permanent and bad things ★
    • how bad does it have to get? ★
    • regarding "better not to start; if you start better to finish" (draft) ★
    • extremity replay and creativity: panic, trauma, sexual arousal ★
    • x-desires, fulfillment, transformation, discussion ★
    • how to know what you want or what your goals are (barely edited transcript excerpt): ★
    • taking refuge (can reshape the local environment and world; global wayfinding through late-stage); art, creativity as whole, part, or beginning of that ★
    • on falling asleep and utilizing sleep ★
    • complex breathing-related puzzles ★
    • working with hypoarousal and (and somewhat separately but relatedly) medical fear and uncertainty (draft): ★
    • note on letting go ★
    • a gentle onramp ★
    • good(ness) bad(ness) ★
    • some "big" useful concepts ★
    • poem of self/other confusion and interdependence ★
    • is good, is bad (q) ★
    • states ★
    • invitation of acceptance ★
    • nutrition ★
    • theory-driven (/ theory-harmonizing-equilibriating) intuitive/interoceptive nutrition and eating ★
    • typology of pain and suffering in terms of when to try meditation (experimental) ★
    • historical and contemporary difficulties and uncertainties of life [experimental section] ★
    • superstitious meditation, muscle tension, and will ★
    • a brief and incomplete theory of muscle tension risk in meditation ★
    • neutral postures, somatization, desomatization, muscle tension, etc. ★
    • CO2 tolerance ★
    • electrolytes ★
    • metabolic traps with respect to meditation ★
    • balancing solve and dissolve ★
    • sleep and distraction ★
    • clarification on muscle contraction and stretching versus chronic muscle tension ★
    • positive dwelling in inability ★
    • when things get worse again--burn-off, integration, suppression, unsuppression ★
    • integration, settling, unsettling, resettling, locality, globality, unity (draft) ★
    • last gasps ★
    • worse for no reason, more X in general, and wisdom ★
    • involuntary movement, semi-involuntary movement, kriyas ★
    • kundalini ★
    • can't talk ★
    • when/if things are bad / (not your) fault / determinism ★
    • being (not) ok tangles ★
    • being (forcibly) ok tangles (h) ★
    • brief note on space and sensations ★
    • raw/bare sensations contra "always on" (possibly misleading early draft) ★
    • brief, loosely related notes on unknotting, untwisting, untangling ★
    • attention is not fundamental ★
    • "inner space" and physical/social grace ★
    • dark phenomenology and presence/absence conceptions ★
    • seeming "boundary" phenomenology ★
    • when bad is good ★
    • bad chaos, dissolution, distintegration ★
    • upstream causes of ordering errors ★
    • prenatal experiences, the fetal position, and other 'be moved bottlenecks' ★
    • daily limits ★
    • advanced postures and pitfalls ★
    • picking up where you left off ★
    • menstrual cycle ★
    • blood pressure, etc: ★
    • equanimity, no such thing and lock-and-key stuff ★
    • autonomic vulnerability, autonomic nudity, autonomic alignment (rough draft) ★
    • pushing away, holding at bay, preconceiving, direct-reifying ★
    • brief thoughts on substances like psychedelics ★
    • getting triggered, usefulness and risks ★
    • some narrowly conceived phenomenological investigations that may or may not be useful ★
    • inappropriate reification (stub) ★
    • a dialogue between N and Mark, on reasoning and pre-reasoning ★
    • bridge building and dialogue ★
      • bridge building ★
        • making connections between my stuff and lineage traditions, in three parts (draft!) ★
          • part 1: "same playing field" ★
          • part 2: continuity between "mundane" and "supramundane"; breadth-first vs depth-first ★
          • part 3: implicit and explicit global wayfinding (or having the best shot of generating everything you need) ★
        • making (sometimes straw) distinctions between my stuff and other stuff ★
          • many enlightenments? (a nonrigorous position) (old post) ★
          • no one gets pixel-perfect possibilities ★
          • renunciation quibbles and other things (draft; needs an even first editing pass) ★
          • polemics ★
      • open informal response on social media to someone in a contemporary practice scene ★
    • a note on "making progress," "regression," and redo-to-undo ★
    • on suffering ★
    • inner peace placeholder ★
    • love placeholder ★
    • wellbeing placeholder ★
    • autonomic harmony placeholder ★
    • far reaches of meditation (no particular order [yet]) ★
      • on groundlessness, a brief note ★
      • dreamlikeness ★
      • stub158da1a2b [intentional] ★
      • naturalization ★
      • cautions in favor of mere immediacy as sufficiency for any global grounding ★
      • impersonalization and environmentalization ★
      • rebalancing/balancing effortlessness and doing ★
      • vague sketch of progression, with respect to emptiness and groundlessness ★
      • touchstones sort of leaving out or only weakly interacting with "wisdom" and morality ("at least one sense in which") ★
      • tweets / shitposts ★
      • temp catch-all ★
      • vulnerability (physical and otherwise, cf. suffering) [stub] ★
      • that won't work ★
      • crappy timeline guidelines ★
      • endlessness vs impermanence (scratch/stub) ★
      • holy/(sacred?) mystery (scratch/stub) ★
      • void (nothingness, cessation(s), nibbana, nirvana [stub/scratch] ★
      • evil (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • eternity, suffering, death ★
      • emptiness (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • nonduality (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • impermanence (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • subjectivity, self, I-ness, ego, identity, awareness, doer, watcher and all that (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • suffering (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • making sense (far reaches) [stub/scratch] ★
      • self-love [stub/scratch] ★
    • on meaning, goodness, badness, aboutness, intentionality, secondary properties ★
    • a dialogue on wayfinding, homunculi, parts, goodness, agency, harmony, interdependence ★
    • a brief dialogue on locality and concreteness ★
    • clockworks metaphor (tweezers, scale, emptiness, locality) ★
    • sex, gender, etc. stuff ★
      • working with sex and gender (plus "tantra") ★
    • stuff stuff ★
      • don't be here now (to start) ★
      • normalcy, crackpotty-ness, wisdom, craziness, competency [stub/draft] ★
      • "false ends" (messy first draft) ★
      • surface areas and the radically personal (draft) ★
    • subtle interaction ★
      • "psychic" and "supernatural" stuff; what/how/how-not [draft] ★
      • self and other; good and bad [draft] ★
      • prenatal experiences and subtle interaction ★
      • direct and indirect people and group stuff ★
      • on vibe(s) and vibing, briefly ★
      • distinctions ★
      • on parts, demons, egregores ★
      • axes of individuation with relation to value judgments (transcript) ★
      • spiritwork manifesto thing (snapshot) ★
    • character, personality, ego, virtue. sovereignty. outside view. cultural, familial good/bad reversals (draft) ★
    • civilizational stuff ★
      • buddhas, anti-buddhas, civilization, and the importance of method [draft] ★
      • sketching alternatives to straw realism (international and group relations) [draft!][2500 words] ★
      • karma, losslessness, developmental stage models, violence, world; including Ken Wilber and Robert Kegan (draft; 6000 words) ★
    • mark's approximate practice timeline summary highlights ★
    • farther to fall and sometimes just plain wrong ★
    • arational coherence \[draft] ★
    • miscellaneous pith notes ★
  • neuroscience speculative snapshots ★
    • neuroscience and meditation, odds and ends [2022-02-09] ★
    • more neuroscience odds and ends 2022-02-10 ★
    • neuroscience, meditation, rationality, folk psychology, and sensorimotor processing ★
      • crowley, chads, rationality, and the unification of will ★
      • enlightenment, sensorimotor processing, love ★
    • brief discussion on generalization ★
  • teaching and learning and creating and relating (meditation and anything) ★
    • teaching ★
      • guided on-ramp for main practice p2 [draft] ★
      • pith instructions (experimental) ★
      • more compressed pith instructions ★
      • yet another pith instruction formulation (experimental) ★
      • "advanced" (or whatever) pith instructions (work in progress) ★
      • a bare-bones, bottom-up, noting-esque practice (without labeling) ★
      • manipulation-themed pith instructions ★
    • embodied learning ★
      • technical debt, meditation, and minds ★
      • a speculative comment on language learning ★
      • technical debt and inverse operations ★
      • merely just having the experience itself, and, technical debt is good, actually ★
      • the scale analogy [draft] ★
      • karma, samskaras, technical debt dialogue with PK ★
    • epistemics ★
      • meditation indirectly discloses domain knowledge ★
      • human epistemic dynamics and phenomena ★
      • epistemic-aesthetic rigor [stub] ★
      • calling word salad phenomenon ★
      • brief notes and qualifiers ★
      • path-dependent mediate conclusions and provisionalities ★
      • the aboutness experience directly itself (note---this is very general and could also go in 'lists and more' proper) ★
    • relating ★
      • in-relationship foreclosing legacy of past interaction [stub] ★
    • creating ★
      • randomness/arbitrariness, unpunished, as necessary data [not yet written] ★
    • lineage and pedagogy ★
      • lineages and transformative works ★
      • on thinking and rigor and pedagogy in meditation instruction ★
  • bibliography (incomplete) ★
  • appendix 1: preliminary/auxiliary practices (names only) ★
  • appendix 2: preliminary/auxiliary practices (full) ★
  • appendix 3: main practice p1 appendix (usa english; "en-us") ★
  • appendix 4: worst case culture/community stuff ★
  • appendix 5: subtle interaction ★
  • appendix 6: death LARPs ★
  • appendix 7: jhana and yoga nidra for long covid (and other things) (draft, experimental) ★
  • appendix 8: acute and chronic ill-health LARPs ★
  • appendix 9: gricean and yin-yang analysis ★
  • appendix 10: communicating feelings (spicy) (draft) ★
  • appendix 11: language and the "causal body" (scratch; draft) ★
  • appendix 12: language and perspective taking (scratch; draft) ★
  • appendix 13: narrative writing bibliography (messy) ★
  • appendix 14: resolved (usually) temporary notes ★
A rearranged reading of the canonical document by “meditationstuff” (Mark Lippmann). This edition may lag the original.
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p27: (stub)

explore already enlightened (or already whatever)

"always already"

cf. grace, nothing you ever do will do it, has to be already sort of. Paradoxically, nothing you’ve ever done or will ever do will make you enlightened (or make you whatever)

← p26 p28 (scratch notes) →

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