Insight Meditation — Run Your Brain in Debug Mode

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🗃 Resources:: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (2020)
2026-06-10

Insight meditation lets you run your brain in debug mode until you realize you're just a subroutine in a larger program.

The first thing to realize is you can observe your mental state. Meditation doesn't mean you're suddenly going to gain the superpower to control your internal state. The advantage of meditation is recognizing just how out of control your mind is. It is like a monkey flinging feces, running around the room, making trouble, shouting, and breaking things. It's completely uncontrollable.

You have to see this mad creature in operation before you feel a certain distaste toward it and start separating yourself from it. In that separation is liberation. You realize, "Oh, I don't want to be that person. Why am I so out of control?" Awareness alone calms you down.