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Advanced meditators are more interested in observing the mind and getting to know it intimately than in controlling it. The most common mistake regular meditatiors make is trying too hard to shape awareness. This just makes consciousness tense and scattered. Meanwhile, the mind can quiet itself if we soften and give it space. However, if we soften too quickly, old habits of mental rambling can take over. With practice, we learn when awareness needs our support and when it is wisest to just get out of its way. As we do this wisely, our sense of being a separate self fades away.
Also see Buddha’s Map, Beginning the Journey, Meditator’s Field Guide, Befriending the Mind, Resting in the waves, Presence, and Deepening.
High Altitude Meditation is a rare and precious offering. With humility, clarity, and the quiet authority of lived experience, Doug Kraft invites the mature practitioner into the subtler currents of the path — beyond technique, beyond striving — into the vastness where being itself dissolves. This is not a manual of method but a transmission of perspective: lucid, gentle, and spacious.
Those who have journeyed through the early and middle terrain of meditation will find in these pages a wise companion for the higher altitudes — where views soften, self fades, and awareness opens into itself. What Doug shares is not theory but direct seeing: of the heart’s motives evolving, of the mind’s fabric thinning, of the simple freedom in welcoming what is.
Reading this book is like sitting in quiet dialogue with a friend who has walked the mountain paths and turned back, not to teach, but to share — openly, kindly, and without demand. May it guide many to remember what has never been absent.
— Delson Armstrong
Moment: Allen
2. Where Are We
Moment: Awareness Not Enough
3. The Spectrum of Awareness
Moment: Thoughts
4. Flow of Awareness
Moment: Ubbiri — The Earh
5. Surrendering into the Expanse
6. Mara
7. Almost Nothing
9. Doorknob