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.

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[–] [S] 5 points 1 day ago*

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.

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