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Re:The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video] by marmaduke on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:35AM (#18480293)
> We actually have no idea what that means experientially

Well one could start by reading what some of those meditators have written. The behavioral correlate of the half second of gamma seems consistent with the notion of “rigpa”, where one practices direct experience without trying to get carried away in the thought process.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigpa

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Re:The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video] by mtphil on Sunday November 18, 2018 @09:09AM (#18480428)
Just a note : 'rigpa' is intimately related to Dzogchen (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzogchen), a high level Tantric practice common to several Tibetan schools of Buddhism as well as the Bon religion, and thus is a /bit/ more complicated than and definitely not quite the same as simply trying to maintain presence in direct experience.

A more appropriate correlate would be 'sati' : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(Buddhism)

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