Longing to read a meditation book where the author doesn't spend a fourth of the text trying to convince me awakening == "the next step in evolution."
This is such a nauseatingly modernist, bad evolutionary biology perspective. Can you just stop?
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I completely agree! I prefer being told, in all honestly, that meditation is useless. Let there be one thing that is not for the greater good, for self-improvement, or whatever.
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This is also a strange formulation to me.
"Why do you do this?"
"Oh no reason, it's utter nonsense."
It's cute, but obscurantist.
I prefer functional formulations stripped of mythology.
"Why do you do this?"
"It helps me get better at doing what I want."
(Or whatever.)
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I see where you're coming from. I can't quite explain it but I find great comfort in doing something for its own sake. "Why do you play the piano?" I'm sure it's great for my brain or something, but I do it because I like it. It has meaning but I can't explain it.
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This is an excellent answer! And I think some forms of meditation fit such a formulation neatly, while others are more workmanlike.
(Who sits on a mat for an hour reciting mantras for fun? - or maybe I am being myopic here.)
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Me. Mantras are fun. Then again, my yidam is a beautiful woman. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Yeah, but you Vajrayana people do all sorts of visualizations and stuff as well!
If I do mantras, it's some basic shit like "clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds..."
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Sure. Would be difficult to motivate myself to just repeat a pair of words.
Although, frankly speaking, Vajrayana mantras will also feel tedious at first. It takes time to really get into it. It took me ~200 000 recitations to really get attuned when I started.
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I found that using exercises from T'ai Chi helped me when playing fiddle, as they greatly improved my bowing control.
Also great for working with trance states.
Moving meditation expressed through music rather than combat. :D
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I've heard Tai Chi mentioned before. Will see if I have an instructor nearby where I end up moving to.
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