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.

  1. Concentration meditation, which is plain ol concentration taken to a higher level.

  2. 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.

  • fluffy_cloud@piefed.worldOPEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    I guess 15 minutes. Maybe 60. Time kinda gets away from me sometimes.

    There’s always idea-stuff flowing by. Like, I dunno, snow falling. It’s whether I react to it that makes it into thinking, basically. When I don’t interact with it by reacting to it by moving my attention and such it isn’t really thinking anymore. It’s like snow.

      • fluffy_cloud@piefed.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        13 days ago

        Thanks. Keep in mind that that’s the rare best-case scenario. My daily best is more like 5 minutes.

        Getting my life to where that best-case scenario happens more often is a big deal for me. I work on that.