Sam Harris said to Huberman "One graduates from breath attention to open awareness." I've been mediating for years - but only just heard this. I assumed they were different styles - not one being "higher level" than the other.

Anybody have thoughts on this at all? Tbh, I find Sam to be a bit too pretentious my tastes. I appreciate how he tries to get you to see things through a different lens in his guided meditations, but I always just found them a bit too much. I did TM for a little over a year, then switched to mindfulness (15 minutes of breath awareness in the morning and five min of open awareness in afternoon).