- cross-posted to:
- piefed_meta@piefed.social
- cross-posted to:
- piefed_meta@piefed.social
Meditation is a thing that you do with your attention. When you pay attention or concentrate or get distracted, that’s you doing a thing with your attention. And that’s obviously important stuff in your life and the world. Meditation takes it further.
We basically have 2 kinds of meditation.
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Concentration meditation, which is plain ol concentration taken to a higher level.
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Zen meditation (aka shikantaza), which is another thing to do with your attention, kindof a left turn from concentration and is a bit esoteric.
So there you go.
So can you meditate at will? I usually don’t say I meditate as try to meditate because that is what I am doing. Sometimes I feel I get to a state which is illusive and maybe what I am looking to get to when I try to meditate but im not sure if that is meditation either.
Yeah, I can meditate at will. I slide in. Starts shallow, gets deeper. The longer I go the deeper it gets. Then when I’m done I slide out again over hours and days. Ideally I’d do it 24-7 but there you go.
It’s like my hand is chronically in a tight fist. When I meditate it relaxes and opens up and gets relaxed and floppy.
That’s shikantaza anyway. The other kind of meditation, the concentration, it sorta makes me tighter. But I don’t do that meditation these days.