Understanding depression as “a really horrible version of Zen Buddhism that’s not half as funny,” “an eternal painful now.” https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/12/07/feeling-the-future/ … by @sarahdoingthing This is why meditating when depressed may be a really bad idea!
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Hard to summarize in less than a blog post… meditation methods that “allow thought without judgement” may result in rumination on misery.
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The subtly different practice of “finding the presence of awareness in the space surrounding thoughts” can lead the inherent non-conceptual luminosity of awareness to blaze forth and burn away the depression like the sun evaporating fog
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which is exactly the introspective phenomenology of the establishment of metaregulation, i.e. of a control structure that directly or indirectly adjusts your assessment of the problem that caused your negative valence
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:/ I should be more careful about what I ask for. There's a reason zen teachers prefer jokes and riddles to this kind of conceptualizing.
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thanks though. appreciate the expressions of insight. they can be hard to share. I think I'm going to go back to my meditation on why porcupine is a better student than owl.
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