meditation does not have to involve sitting down, you do not have to be still, you do not have to be quiet, you do not have to be alone, you do not have to be in a group, you do not have to be inside, you do not have to control your thoughts, you do not have to control anything
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meditation can be exploring the complete space of possible internal and external actions available to you
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you can do literally whatever mental or physical motions you want
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all of this is shilling for ’s approach to meditation btw which i find enormously freeing compared to any other, more here:
meditationbook.page
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some people adopt a “no pain no gain” attitude towards meditation that makes it about forcing themselves to do uncomfortable things. when you do that you enshrine a worldview in which force is king, where the parts of you that can best dominate the others decide what to do
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it does not have to be like that. with a sufficiently broad conception of meditation you can aim to apply almost no force in your practice. meditation is not homework and it is not like training a muscle. as mark says, “meditation is concrete problem-solving”
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some people meditate out of self-hatred, because on some level it can become a socially acceptable form of suicide. it doesn’t have to be like that either. you can meditate your way towards becoming more alive than ever, not less
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“The goal of the practice is to have a good life, in the most broad and ordinary sense, on your terms, in your words, in your frame, or in no frame.”
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meditation is allowed to be fun and you are allowed to have fun meditating
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yesss I think it’s utterly crucial
it’s like when you sit down on a cushion and rock back and forth a bit to find a comfortable posture
that but for finding an inner posture of fun, curiosity, forgiveness, etc, probably needs to be a primary establishing move
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there’s always weird meta-motivational issues with “habits that you know are good for you”
key words for me are: centers, leisure, celebration, worship, forgiveness, patience, liturgy, desire, faith
note how this is a very different register compared to “good habits” talk
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