Amir Freimann
A metaphor is born
Recently I interviewed someone who underwent spiritual awakening about half a year ago and has been living "on a spiritual high plateau"...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 19
- 2 min
The mystic's renunciation
We can easily dismiss the mystic's attraction to asceticism, abstinence and renunciation as originating from backward life- and...
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Amir Freimann
- Jul 16, 2022
- 2 min
Awareness of the sacred in times of crisis
I the interviews I conducted with spiritual exemplars as part of my PhD research, one of the questions I asked was: Did you have in your...
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Amir Freimann
- Jun 14, 2022
- 1 min
The best place to start from
Recently I had conversations with a few dear dharma friends, who nowadays are putting much of their time, energy and comfort into trying...
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Amir Freimann
- Apr 24, 2022
- 1 min
A comment that made a difference
Years ago I published in an Israeli newspaper an article about meditation, and in it I wrote that, when I sit in meditation, I connect...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
Enlightenment and Newton's Apple
One of the main paradoxes of enlightenment or awakening is that one awakens to what had always been the case and what they had always...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
Only When You Reach the Source
Years ago I visited, together with a friend, Father Marcel Dubois (an Israeli Dominican monk and philosopher), who was well-known, among...
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Amir Freimann
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Psychedelics and Meditation
In a paper by Chris Letheby with the above title, he suggests that psychedelics and meditation can both (1) disrupt self-binding...
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Amir Freimann
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
My Morning Chant
A friend told me I should share my morning chant, so here it is. I chant the first part before meditating and the second as I come out of...
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Amir Freimann
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
A dangerous experiment in overcoming fear
During my morning hike it started raining and I suddenly remembered a pretty crazy adventure I had some 30 years ago on Mt. Tamalpais in...
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