MetaJess

also like if have a really central + nonnormative/hard-to-complement kink/fetish/paraphilia I think ppl in above or below situation, if truly too hard to find a person, should particularly maybe do X-thousand hour meditation thing to expand window of sex and love. strategy. https://twitter.com/default_friend/status/1225497836340551684 …

what if thousands of hours of meditation is just thousands of hours of meditation and has nothing to do with figuring out who to meet someone that you connect with romantically? I'm just having trouble seeing the connection

meditation = change experience/behavior/desire/preferences

seems like an unconventional definition of the word

the ='s was shorthand. can replace with fruit of meditation or reason to meditate. the connection was already explicitly in the original tweet, though.

to be clear, I'm not trying to make the case that meditation either is or ought to be goalless, as Malcolm implies herehttps://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1225515468376682496?s=20 …

but when I say that I don't see the connection between the goal you're pointing at and the goals of meditation, I mean that as an honest question. I don't see the connection. Refactoring perception through examination of the contents of consciousness (or lack thereof) is...

...one thing, and can perhaps be a stepping stone towards other kinds of behavioral change, but that seems QUITE indirect and I don't think it can be reasonably expected from meditation alone without supplementing other modalities to instigate behavior change.