meditation
The art of sitting and doing nothing.
@dwayne
Meditation from spiritual traditions is meant to have the same effect as psychedelics
I finally get it
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@klusya
I used to be under the impression that true meditation is only a state of zero thoughts (achieved through sitting in a lotus pose 🤭).
So every time I was doing guided meditation, or just observing my thoughts or feelings in the body, I thought it didn't really count.
But recently I've had an epiphany... First of all, who's counting??
Secondly, meditation is just a word. It can mean whatever I need it to mean for me.
And that just opened a new world for me. Like, I can do an imaginative relaxing activity any time I need, to work through something that's bothering me, or for an insight? How fun is that??
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@antimofm.eth
> hey google, play the soundtrack from Koyaanisqatsi
> Sure, playing the album "Korean restaurant music" on Spotify
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@know
Sitting down to meditate you might get caught in the idea that you need to fix something - that something is wrong and meditations job is to produce a certain state.
Instead, it can be helpful just to be curious about where attention is at any moment and to gently return it to rest in the body if it's wandered.
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@know
If you're going to FarCon next week, on the Saturday you could go and learn from a great meditation teacher at 09:30 and be free by 15:00.
What a blessing it'd be to be in NYC!
https://henryshukman.com/events/nyc-daylong-may-2025
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@grin
im doing a weeklong jhana-focused meditation retreat starting tomorrow evening. any advice for a first-timer?
(also im gonna be offline and incommunicado for a week. dont miss me too much)
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@know
The path of pausing ~ Pema Chödron
“The primary focus of this path of choosing wisely, of this training to de-escalate aggression, is learning to stay present. Pausing very briefly, frequently throughout the day, is an almost effortless way to do this. For just a few seconds we can be right here. Meditation is another way to train in learning to stay, or, as one student put it more accurately, learning to come back, to return to being present over and over again.”
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@priyanka
day 1 of giving meditation a shot (again).
i really hope that i don’t give up easily this time.
if anyone’s got suggestions/tips that can help me form this habit successfully, i’d love to know what helped you when you got started or even if you failed to form the habit the first time and then tried again and succeeded. 🥺💙
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