Mysteriously missing meditation method. I suspect many of us improvise something here, in the absence of official instructions. https://meaningness.com/wonder pic.twitter.com/YTDtDiZ2eb
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*I must be* missing something. Isn't it what dance and singing etc create favorable conditions for? Ecstatic open awareness methods in dzogchen/mahamudra in some respects? Also, some aspects of dak nang, when done inquisitively and open-endedly as improv? What am I missing?
Yeah, none of those are similar to what I had in mind. I regret posting an inadequate explanation; it’s just caused confusion. Would need a full-length post I suppose.
I don't know if it has a name but I've definitely tried this, I remember for example trying to turn off my visual edge detection to maybe find new patterns (I failed but it was instructive, plus I'd be very surprised if anybody got that to work given how our eyes work)
Yeah, edge detection is bottom-up. Fwiw I seem to be able to turn off the top-down stuff, which for a former machine vision researcher is exciting; plausibly the experience is of the raw output of early/bottom-up vision.
for me it seems like I have to make a bit of a conscious effort to quit "teleporting" and to focus on the entire breadth of sensory experience then usually can get to a place that feels wondrous and agendaless, if only for a few momentspic.twitter.com/QxlTwCccjs
I wrote a blog post about doing just that: https://rosalewis.co.uk/awakening/expression-through-imaginal-practise/ …
Or if you are looking for ways to engage with the external world like this, that would be developing flow states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology) …
Once I got the basic gist of meditation, the thing I mostly did was "expanding my 'model of my environment' to to be vast and intricate and fresh using ALL my senses to their utmost". My ignorant hypothesis was that zen was mostly this plus verbal mysterianism.
Do you think do-nothing meditation as described by Shinzen Young could be a starting point? https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/FiveWaystoKnowYourself_ver1.6.pdf … (page 40) For myself I found that walking do-nothing-ish meditation seems to produce a sense of wonder at times.
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