Michael ( @slowmo),
Come on, time doesn’t exist but I can’t wait to get your take about open awareness vs. insight meditation.
What I have observed is to make the insight meditation more meaningful, I need a good level of concentration. So I do the open awareness as long as my mind is not calm before starting the insight meditation. And some days, according to the daily events it can take a lot of time.
I am also very attracted to the open awareness practice because of the non-dual, non-conceptual state. And maybe when you get attracted toward this state and you think about it, naturally the attachment to the “self” soften.