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Shrinking your mind to the size of a speck

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To deeply comprehend the absolute smallest building blocks of reality, advanced meditators aggressively compress their internal awareness until they feel microscopic. They imagine diving endlessly inward until they are smaller than a single speck of dust. It is a fantastic mental exercise that makes entirely normal rooms feel incredibly terrifying.

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