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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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Have you ever done group/collective transcendental meditation? From my limited lack of knowledge, I understand it is used to push positive social waves into the surrounding community. Big David Lynch fan.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Also, have you seen that collection of David Lynch's short works? It's got its moments. Featuring Harry Dean Stanton being musically deep. I have only seen it on torrent.

    https://thepiratebay.zone/search/david%20lynch/1/99/0

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I am also a big David Lynch fan :)

    I have not done TM in any serious way. I basically fumbled around and experimented until it made sense to me. Forging my own path and such.

    I did go to a TM thing once a long time ago. They were nice people.

    As for pushing positive social waves into the surrounding community, yes, I have some small experience with that. It's a thing I study and experiment with some.

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