A lot of people get into meditation teaching or psychology because they have issues with their own relationship to the world. It is not always possible to work through them in the first ninety years of our life.
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Replying to @Plinz
It's very difficult to do so without reasoned argument, I agree. And critical argument is seen as evil by a lot of meditative traditions because it hurts for them, basically.
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Replying to @EvanOLeary
A skilled meditation teacher will usually recognize such a lack of integrity and fix it in themselves. I suspect that your Aspie traits (also apparent in your preference of reasoned argument over a consistent perceptual model) may have triggered a stereotype in your teacher.
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Replying to @Plinz
It was just a networking event, rather than a meditation teaching, but yeah e.g. I answered a group question "what gives what you do meaning" by saying the Q was justificationist & refuting justificationism & she said "yr operating from the head not the heart".
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Replying to @EvanOLeary
She was correct; she wanted to express that your answer failed to recognize and serve the purpose of the question, while it would have been in your interest to do so. The mental organ that measures shared purpose is the heart, not reason.
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Replying to @Plinz
But shared purpose isnt measureable: diff tasks have diff measures of accuracy: 1 measure of how accurately I've "owned a house" is whether the deed is safe from destruction by some class of criminal methods. But no corresponding measure of how accurately I've "eaten breakfast".
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Replying to @EvanOLeary
In your case, the negotiation of an establishment of shared purpose failed: you did not know how to connect via the heart, and she did not know how to connect via reason.
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Replying to @Plinz
I think I know how to connect via the heart - I've done different kinds of meditation in the past- but I think that primarily involves sympathetic nervous system activation, so I'm kinda against it. I do vagus nerve stimulation to try to have the highest parasympathetic activity
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Replying to @EvanOLeary
You misunderstood her question as one about the ontological status of meaning, but she asked a question about your motivational wiring above the ego.
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Replying to @Plinz
The question was asked by a third person. But my answer was based on epistemology (what's fun is creating explanations because it can avoid all locally known modes of moral criticism), and I think all ideas follow the same laws of epistemology, even "perceptual"/"above the ego"
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I find that most humans are consciously unaware of the idea that shared epistemology must be fundamental to shared truth, and terminal meaning is fundamentally ill-defined, but they are consciously aware of the fact that they serve meanings. Nerds tend to be the opposite.
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