Most effective thing I've done to get my mental and emotional health on track. Taking 10-15 minutes to ground yourself and quiet the mind is invaluable some days
Agreed. Also made me realise how fricked up I am from porn (flashing images of degeneracy when I close my eyes and try to quiet my mind). Made it easier to quit tbh.
The first seal of the Kuji In system, "Ren," helps to clear sexual problems with great efficiency. (And eventually purify the mind and body of carnal lust completely.) You can use that in culmination with sitting or standing meditation. (Hands clasped together with the middle-finger out)
The Kuji In, or Nine Cuts, is an ancient Taoist prayer and system of hand-seals (also known as "mudras") that enable the practitioner to enhance their mind and body in fascinating ways. The forth seal, for instance, "Sha," will revitalize and charge the Thymus gland; Effectively allowing an accomplished practitioner to literally heal their body, by means of creating an abundance of T and B-cells, while also repairing crucial endocrine, neurological and cellular systems. (cellular replenishment will be more frequent once the Thymus gland is in tip-top shape.)
Most of these nine seals each correspond to an endocrine gland, chakra center and a psychological attribute that aids the practitioner in meditation, martial arts, energy cultivation and projection. As well as natural grounding effects and dmt production in the third-eye. (at higher levels.) Because of that last fact though, it is crucial that anyone interested in using the system, start from the first seal! If you were to use the 8th seal, Zai (which will open the third-eye) in great excess without properly having the grounding benefits of the first seal, you will be tripping out too much and it is a bit uncomfortable.
There is a great deal of information about the system in books and online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuji-in
Sit comfortably in a quiet space where you won't be disturbed. Let go of the tension in your face, hands, and shoulders. Breath slowly in and out; 3 counts in, hold for 1 second, 5 second out, hold for 1 second, repeat. Once your breath has a rhythm close your eyes and let go of the breath. Start slowly scanning from the top of your head downward towards your feet. You'll have thoughts and feelings pop up and try to distract you. When they do just acknowledge them gently with the words "thought" and "feel" respectively. They'll disappear like a whisper. After you've scanned through your body start counting your breaths again. This time count to 10 and restart repeatedly. Silence thoughts and feelings with the same method. If you get distracted it's not a problem; just start over with the counting. Alternate between these two until you feel relaxed and like things are quiet. There's other methods for visualization but those two are the most useful in my experience. To come out of the trance like state you'll be in, reconnect with your senses by noticing one sense at a time. I usually start with hearing first and open them up one by one until the only thing left to do is open my eyes. I'll open my eyes and take a few minutes to just absorb what's happening around me before going on with my day
That meme doesn't show what you think - sure if you get punched in the face it's going to hurt, and you're probably going to react - but only if you're conscious.
If you're unconscious and get punched in the face you're not going to feel a thing, and if you're unconscious long enough you likely won't even know anything happened at all unless someone tells you.
The body experiences sensations, but it's your mind that make them real.
That still doesn't negate that undesirable conditions happened to your body. I say it's more human to be hurt and feel the pain, than closing your consciousness and becoming an automaton. It's better to have an ego and LIVE, than killing yourSELF before your body runs out. Yeah there will be suffering but running away from suffering like a pussy then the reward is dying forever? I don't get it man
There are as many methods and reasons for meditating as there are people who do it.
A person doesn't spend their life on a couch eating and drinking crap, realise they need to get IST, do a 5 second plank and have washboard abs.
It takes time and effort, and maybe they lose a little weight and gain some self confidence and maybe that's enough for them.
Maybe they go further; they look at their food, their sleep, their behaviour and pastimes, the company they keep - it can go on and on.
In the same way meditation is IST for the mind - you can take it as some time to relax and connect with yourself, or you can go much, much further.
For me it doesn't represent closing off from the world, but opening up to it, self-liberation not self-denial. The goal is to be in a constant state of meditation in every moment in life, to be fully present and self-aware in every thought and action. To see and experience each moment fully and honestly without fear or expectation, and to see through each experience the ultimate reality behind it, be the experience 'good' or 'bad'.
This is simply my perspective - I'm not saying it's The Way, only my way.
Meditation, to me, is about getting out of your own way. For example, when you say >undesirable conditions
You're talking about your perception of an objective occurrence The "undesirable conditions" are really just "conditions." Its YOU who makes them undesirable by attaching a value statement to them. In the same vein, when you talk about >becoming an automaton
You're talking about someone being ruled by their conscious attention rather than running on autopilot. Someone who doesn't direct their consciousness is more akin to an automaton because they're being steered by their more instinctual mind. Claiming >it's more human to hurt and feel pain
Is misleading. You still hurt and feel pain. The goal isn't to flee from the unpleasant, but rather to take the bad with the good and understand the temporary nature of the whole system. All of life still happens to you when you meditate, but you gain a degree of control over how you experience life and how you assign values to it.
>It's better to have an ego and LIVE, than killing yourSELF before your body runs out
Why?
This is your ego speaking, you want to live, but not for any particular reason except to eat, piss, shit, sleep and anything that happens inbetween. Your definition of human is an automaton, an animal slave to its base instincts, there is so much more potential to humans that you in your endless hedonism ignore and just wish to sate your base needs in the moment. There's a level of irony to someone stuffing cheese crust pizza into their face while laughing at buddhists trying to discover deeper meaning to existence.
Meditation is not as simple as people make it out to be, in the modern world it's more of a trend and not actually practiced with sincerety. There's various definitions to it, various reasons to it and nobody seems to know the right answer and its the individual's job to pick and choose which facets of information to believe and what to do with it. You will never find the absolute truth but you can always be more informed and risk practicing something even if it has no payoff. Reading ancient vedas is a rabbit hole in and of itself, there are some "messengers" that can concentrate some of this information to you in easier to digest terms but ultimately you have to make the decisions for yourself.
With how easily obtainable information nowadays is, pick and choose what resonates with you the most and act accordingly. My suggestions would be Krishnamurti and Rajneesh, read and listen with thought. Humans in general are utterly idiotic, you can't say a single thing without them assuming a million things based on all of the baggage they've gathered throughout their lives, almost nobody can go into things without some presumption, acting like they already know what to think about something they've never heard of. This is ego. You're predisposed to shut down everything without giving it a thought. You've closed yourself off from growth and expansion.
buddhism isn't about running away from suffering, it's a belief system that holds that our habits and preconceptions both insulate us from objective reality and cause ourselves suffering
source: check out that dude that set himself on fricking fire in vietnam bro, didn't even flinch
Is this why you see some Buddhist monks self-immolate and it doesn't even seem to phase them? Have they literally transcended? (Granted, these guys meditate like 15 hours a day for 40 years)
yes, some use drugs but a lot are completely drug free IIRC the guy in that photo had nothing in his system and just like 5 years prior was a normie who worked in a bank
I always think of this, when I think of unshakable discipline. >calmly sits down and lights himself on fire in protest. >doesnt make a noise, doesnt flail >sits there calmly, doesn't move, and just burns alive for 10 minutes. >only makes a movement when his now lifeless charred corpse falls over
Absolute legend
Sit comfortably in a quiet space where you won't be disturbed. Let go of the tension in your face, hands, and shoulders. Breath slowly in and out; 3 counts in, hold for 1 second, 5 second out, hold for 1 second, repeat. Once your breath has a rhythm close your eyes and let go of the breath. Start slowly scanning from the top of your head downward towards your feet. You'll have thoughts and feelings pop up and try to distract you. When they do just acknowledge them gently with the words "thought" and "feel" respectively. They'll disappear like a whisper. After you've scanned through your body start counting your breaths again. This time count to 10 and restart repeatedly. Silence thoughts and feelings with the same method. If you get distracted it's not a problem; just start over with the counting. Alternate between these two until you feel relaxed and like things are quiet. There's other methods for visualization but those two are the most useful in my experience. To come out of the trance like state you'll be in, reconnect with your senses by noticing one sense at a time. I usually start with hearing first and open them up one by one until the only thing left to do is open my eyes. I'll open my eyes and take a few minutes to just absorb what's happening around me before going on with my day
No, it has a myriad of mental and physical benefits - makes you less emotionally reactive, improved memory, reduced blood pressure, improved recovery time, etc.
Look up "mindfulness meditation." You can start practicing within minutes. Start slow and gradually increase the duration to an hour or more. Like any other habits, consistency is key. Be well.
"religions" dont, but it often happens in monasterial organizations because they eventually reach a point where they recruit people for monkhood who are not suited for it. Men who arent suited for celibacy basically become "forced" to become celibates. Such men dont do well with a life of not fricking women, but they also do not want to mess up and go to hell or affront their religion some way, so they find loopholes and excuses for fricking men and sometimes boys.
Christ cucks will let their children get raped by priest so they can go to heaven but get mad when Buddhist lamas do the same? Sucking a little kids tongue isn't even the most controversial thing Dali lama did it's just the most publicized because it happaned in the post me too era.
Depends, I unironically found that lifting is my form of meditation after having tried both.
To meditate is to disconnect from yourself, your problems and insecurities, let go of anxiety to relax and reflect. You are an outsider to outside stimulus, so you are alone with yourself, without judgement or strife.
If sitting cross legged, in silence; in darkness or in the sun, is the way you do it more power to you.
Sometimes while I do my reps I like to reflect on my problems, while I do and close my eyes the world blurs.
Rep in breathe out rep out breathe in, so on.
When I'm done with the set and move to another station, I remember there was music blasting in the gym, that there were other people around me.
Meditation however you perform it can give you some peace of mind, stillness in this fast paced world.
You just have to try things and find how your own method.
>Sometimes while I do my reps I like to reflect on my problems, while I do and close my eyes the world blurs. >Rep in breathe out rep out breathe in, so on. >When I'm done with the set and move to another station, I remember there was music blasting in the gym, that there were other people around me.
Meditation is a meme. It's just a way to make yourself feel funny for a while and some religious asiatics and pajeets created a whole mythology around it. Read The Buddha Pill by Miguel Farias, it looks at the most recent information regarding meditation and the brain. The tldr is that meditation, depending on your physiology, either does nothing for you or can exacerbate mental illness and any positive benefit is literally just derived from being slightly more spiritual and feeling as though your life has meaning, which can be archived in a lot more efficient and enjoyable ways like reading Aristotle or Schopenhauer or being a Taoist.
>finding meaning of life through Schopenhauer
Black person did you even read it? He just took eastern philosophy and applied it to art
A book like "the Buddha pill" sounds incel as frick anyway. I just know that a buddhist monk has been declared the happiest person on Earth therefore it can't be that bad as you make it to be
Meditation doesn't have to be religious or spiritual, there a benefits to sitting still, with your eyes closed and focusing on one specific thing.
Having meditated for 1 hour a day every day, the change is enormous.
How fricking cucked is our society when being alone with yourself and doing some introspection can be seen as a bad thing.
Meditating is the single best thing any modern person living in the modern world can do for their mental health, because of how far removed everyone is from their own minds and themselves.
The ability to place and maintain your conscious attention for prolonged periods is useful in all areas of life. Moreover, meditation has been shown to have positive effects on mood and outlook.
Lastly, expert mediators are able to control how their brain works.
It’s all placebo hippie nonsense. However the placebo can have some health benefits as a good mind can lead to a good body, but there are so many better things for your life than meditating, like eating clean, not drinking alcohol etc etc.
He did tho, big surprise to you too, most scientists especially physicists and mathematicians are very religious.
Except for Chemists, those fricking morons are the most arrogant c**ts you'll ever meet, their discipline isn't that hard anyway it's basically kitchen stuff.
It’s hard especially in todays world and requires work like everything else. I’ve been trying to be consistent. I’ve found it more helpful than any therapist.
Go download Reggie rays Mahamudra for the modern world. It will set you on the right path if you are actually interested. https://t.me/TibetanMahayana
its not, but imo most people dont understand it. you shouldnt be directly trying to quiet the mind because that wont work, you cant directly quiet the mind, but the mind naturally becomes quiet due to correct meditation practice
i read osho and also practice this stuff and from my experience the correct way to meditate is just to watch the thoughts. youll get pulled into them again and again but every time you notice you got pulled into them and step out is like a rep. you get 'stronger' and 'stronger' each time you do that. and therefore 'better' at meditation
when you watch the mind like this, it naturally settles down, it naturally quiets down. this is what i mean when i say that a quiet, or quieter mind is a natural byproduct of good and correct meditation practice
the goal of meditation is to become more and more disidentified with mind. and how this works is the more you watch your thoughts, the more you get out of the mind and more into 'awareness'. awareness is a higher state, higher consciousness if you will, but this is more advanced and beginners should just focus on watching the mind in the beginning to not confuse themselves and put too much on the plate
Its great. You don't have to go down the crazy buddhist shit, you can just meditate as a practice. It has a number of benefits; it's not magic, but its so easy to do and takes nothing but a little time, that its completely worth it. The main thing is brain fatigue: you spend your time every day focused on so many things that your brain just gets focus-fatigue. Meditation allows you to focus on just...nothing in particular for a bit, and it has a nice reset effect on the brain. You don't even have to do it for a long time, 10-20 minutes is more than enough for starting and just switching between tasks. Its one of the most studied things in literature, and has show some very clear benefits.
Super easy. Just sit quietly, focus on your breathing and slow your breathing, and just observe your thoughts as they come and go. After 15 minutes, you're done.
>meditate >mind is more clear on the regular >less foggy head, can stop for extended periods of time to make informed decisions >sleep better and nigh immediately when going to bed >stop meditating for like 6 months >head is a fricking circus >give in more easily to compulsive urges like nail biting or scratching itches >every night have some random song play on my head on repeat, prolonging the time it takes to sleep with +30 minutes
I am at peace with myself on whichever state of mind, but I prefer the meditative mind over the hedonistic one.
No, it helps a ton. The only people who hate on it are spergs who cant be alone with their thoughts for 10 seconds without 34 streams of media going at once. Its helped my sleep a lot, helps my stress and overall mood nicely
Mindfulness Meditation allegedly trains you to detach from your emotions when they flair up/trigger. Idk if it's real or not since I haven't done it myself.
The Buddhist throw-away everything lifestyle however is extreme cuckery, worse than the christcuck slaves, at least they have things to look for.
Eastern meditation is most certainly a meme. The word itself is Greek and once referred to exercises to sharpen the mind instead of the spiritual lobotomy that gets peddled these days.
So many morons in this thread. If you actually had an interest you’d understand that the western version of meditation is the bullshit watered down spiritual materialism. The actual practice is not about lobotomizing yourself. Meditation is not a life raft. Mediation teaches you to swim in the ocean of experience. It’s a living breathing practice.
It’s hard especially in todays world and requires work like everything else. I’ve been trying to be consistent. I’ve found it more helpful than any therapist.
Go download Reggie rays Mahamudra for the modern world. It will set you on the right path if you are actually interested. https://t.me/TibetanMahayana
But you’re not going to actually follow through because 99% of people wont. The older I get the more I realize most things people believe are built on bullshit and heresay. The majority have no nuance in life and no desire to go deeper than surface level so they end up with a myopic understanding of everything and wallow in misery like the cattle they are.
The western tradition really seems to be going great
I recently finished "Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" by Sam Harris and it is the best thing I've ever read. From what I understand there are insights to be gained from introspection, that can't be learned from outside sources. By freeing one's consciousness of any content and experiencing consciousness itself, one can shake free from the illusion of the self. The self is the source of much suffering in our lifes. We seek pleasures and avoid pain, but it's all fleeting. How wonderful would it be, if there was a source of happiness to be found inside our own minds.
Before getting interested in this kind of stuff I was obsessed with determinism and the illusion of free will, which is a good starting point for learning about the illusion of the self I think. Ultimately there are many ways to reach a peaceful state of mind, but I think meditation is the most straight forward one.
Sam Harris’s app got me started down this whole path and I thank him for that but I would move on quickly. He’s a israelite and clearly not a very “enlightened” being after his trump derangement syndrome and other israelite shit.
Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu's (Sirimangalo) free online meditation course (videos and booklet) is very newcomer friendly and I recommend it to anyone interested in meditation. Every weekend there is a live meditation Q&A broadcast where you can ask a question in chat.
The word meditation doesn't mean anything specific and there is a lot to explore when it comes to it, but I think this is a nice start and a perfect practice even for those that want to just regain focus and claritiy during the day.
not sure if it counts but i started trying bikram yoga. i've been to like 10 or so sessions and only in the last one i exhausted my mind so much that i could finally follow instructions correctly. it's quite nice to come to the realization that you can do way more than you think you can.
i meditate for 10 minutes after my work out, helps me feel calm and really feel the post workout confidence. don;t take it to seriously, just sit up with eyes closed and relax.
For moronic buddhist Black person reasons, yes. Although the act of meditating itself, where you just sit down anywhere and close your eyes while letting your thoughts go is not a meme. Think of it as giving your mind a little break from all the overstimulation as well as training to be comfortable being with only yourself.
No, it's not a meme. It gives you inner calm and a better control over your mind, just like sports and exercise give you better control over your body. Obviously chakras, energies, and gods are fairy tales for morons, but the core benefits are real.
I recently finished "Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" by Sam Harris and it is the best thing I've ever read. From what I understand there are insights to be gained from introspection, that can't be learned from outside sources. By freeing one's consciousness of any content and experiencing consciousness itself, one can shake free from the illusion of the self. The self is the source of much suffering in our lifes. We seek pleasures and avoid pain, but it's all fleeting. How wonderful would it be, if there was a source of happiness to be found inside our own minds.
Before getting interested in this kind of stuff I was obsessed with determinism and the illusion of free will, which is a good starting point for learning about the illusion of the self I think. Ultimately there are many ways to reach a peaceful state of mind, but I think meditation is the most straight forward one.
Most people are a meme.
Satanisgod.org
yeah, when have you ever seen any of the people that killed Tien meditate. You think Majin Buu meditates? No, but Tien does it all the time
Jiren meditates though
Most effective thing I've done to get my mental and emotional health on track. Taking 10-15 minutes to ground yourself and quiet the mind is invaluable some days
Agreed. Also made me realise how fricked up I am from porn (flashing images of degeneracy when I close my eyes and try to quiet my mind). Made it easier to quit tbh.
G-give advice anon?
The first seal of the Kuji In system, "Ren," helps to clear sexual problems with great efficiency. (And eventually purify the mind and body of carnal lust completely.) You can use that in culmination with sitting or standing meditation. (Hands clasped together with the middle-finger out)
The Kuji In, or Nine Cuts, is an ancient Taoist prayer and system of hand-seals (also known as "mudras") that enable the practitioner to enhance their mind and body in fascinating ways. The forth seal, for instance, "Sha," will revitalize and charge the Thymus gland; Effectively allowing an accomplished practitioner to literally heal their body, by means of creating an abundance of T and B-cells, while also repairing crucial endocrine, neurological and cellular systems. (cellular replenishment will be more frequent once the Thymus gland is in tip-top shape.)
Most of these nine seals each correspond to an endocrine gland, chakra center and a psychological attribute that aids the practitioner in meditation, martial arts, energy cultivation and projection. As well as natural grounding effects and dmt production in the third-eye. (at higher levels.) Because of that last fact though, it is crucial that anyone interested in using the system, start from the first seal! If you were to use the 8th seal, Zai (which will open the third-eye) in great excess without properly having the grounding benefits of the first seal, you will be tripping out too much and it is a bit uncomfortable.
There is a great deal of information about the system in books and online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuji-in
How do you perform it. Focusing on the breath? If so, do you focus on the activity or on the sensation? If on the sensation, which one (nose/belly)?
I wrote a how-to itt
yep
a gem
>implying the martial arts monks who combat armies to defend their monasteries are all valley girls
That meme doesn't show what you think - sure if you get punched in the face it's going to hurt, and you're probably going to react - but only if you're conscious.
If you're unconscious and get punched in the face you're not going to feel a thing, and if you're unconscious long enough you likely won't even know anything happened at all unless someone tells you.
The body experiences sensations, but it's your mind that make them real.
That still doesn't negate that undesirable conditions happened to your body. I say it's more human to be hurt and feel the pain, than closing your consciousness and becoming an automaton. It's better to have an ego and LIVE, than killing yourSELF before your body runs out. Yeah there will be suffering but running away from suffering like a pussy then the reward is dying forever? I don't get it man
There are as many methods and reasons for meditating as there are people who do it.
A person doesn't spend their life on a couch eating and drinking crap, realise they need to get IST, do a 5 second plank and have washboard abs.
It takes time and effort, and maybe they lose a little weight and gain some self confidence and maybe that's enough for them.
Maybe they go further; they look at their food, their sleep, their behaviour and pastimes, the company they keep - it can go on and on.
In the same way meditation is IST for the mind - you can take it as some time to relax and connect with yourself, or you can go much, much further.
For me it doesn't represent closing off from the world, but opening up to it, self-liberation not self-denial. The goal is to be in a constant state of meditation in every moment in life, to be fully present and self-aware in every thought and action. To see and experience each moment fully and honestly without fear or expectation, and to see through each experience the ultimate reality behind it, be the experience 'good' or 'bad'.
This is simply my perspective - I'm not saying it's The Way, only my way.
Meditation, to me, is about getting out of your own way. For example, when you say
>undesirable conditions
You're talking about your perception of an objective occurrence The "undesirable conditions" are really just "conditions." Its YOU who makes them undesirable by attaching a value statement to them. In the same vein, when you talk about
>becoming an automaton
You're talking about someone being ruled by their conscious attention rather than running on autopilot. Someone who doesn't direct their consciousness is more akin to an automaton because they're being steered by their more instinctual mind. Claiming
>it's more human to hurt and feel pain
Is misleading. You still hurt and feel pain. The goal isn't to flee from the unpleasant, but rather to take the bad with the good and understand the temporary nature of the whole system. All of life still happens to you when you meditate, but you gain a degree of control over how you experience life and how you assign values to it.
>It's better to have an ego and LIVE, than killing yourSELF before your body runs out
Why?
This is your ego speaking, you want to live, but not for any particular reason except to eat, piss, shit, sleep and anything that happens inbetween. Your definition of human is an automaton, an animal slave to its base instincts, there is so much more potential to humans that you in your endless hedonism ignore and just wish to sate your base needs in the moment. There's a level of irony to someone stuffing cheese crust pizza into their face while laughing at buddhists trying to discover deeper meaning to existence.
Meditation is not as simple as people make it out to be, in the modern world it's more of a trend and not actually practiced with sincerety. There's various definitions to it, various reasons to it and nobody seems to know the right answer and its the individual's job to pick and choose which facets of information to believe and what to do with it. You will never find the absolute truth but you can always be more informed and risk practicing something even if it has no payoff. Reading ancient vedas is a rabbit hole in and of itself, there are some "messengers" that can concentrate some of this information to you in easier to digest terms but ultimately you have to make the decisions for yourself.
With how easily obtainable information nowadays is, pick and choose what resonates with you the most and act accordingly. My suggestions would be Krishnamurti and Rajneesh, read and listen with thought. Humans in general are utterly idiotic, you can't say a single thing without them assuming a million things based on all of the baggage they've gathered throughout their lives, almost nobody can go into things without some presumption, acting like they already know what to think about something they've never heard of. This is ego. You're predisposed to shut down everything without giving it a thought. You've closed yourself off from growth and expansion.
buddhism isn't about running away from suffering, it's a belief system that holds that our habits and preconceptions both insulate us from objective reality and cause ourselves suffering
source: check out that dude that set himself on fricking fire in vietnam bro, didn't even flinch
sure, bro
Lmfao that's hilarious
if you meditate enough you can cope with anything. death, sickness, fear, uncertainty, doubt. it is the foundation of a strong mind.
Is this why you see some Buddhist monks self-immolate and it doesn't even seem to phase them? Have they literally transcended? (Granted, these guys meditate like 15 hours a day for 40 years)
yes, some use drugs but a lot are completely drug free IIRC the guy in that photo had nothing in his system and just like 5 years prior was a normie who worked in a bank
I always think of this, when I think of unshakable discipline.
>calmly sits down and lights himself on fire in protest.
>doesnt make a noise, doesnt flail
>sits there calmly, doesn't move, and just burns alive for 10 minutes.
>only makes a movement when his now lifeless charred corpse falls over
Absolute legend
>does meditation work
This fricking guy
Didn't move a muscle or utter a sound for 10 minutes while being burned alive
If that isn't proof that meditation works then I don't know what is
Yes, but so is life. So go for it
How to meditate
Sit comfortably in a quiet space where you won't be disturbed. Let go of the tension in your face, hands, and shoulders. Breath slowly in and out; 3 counts in, hold for 1 second, 5 second out, hold for 1 second, repeat. Once your breath has a rhythm close your eyes and let go of the breath. Start slowly scanning from the top of your head downward towards your feet. You'll have thoughts and feelings pop up and try to distract you. When they do just acknowledge them gently with the words "thought" and "feel" respectively. They'll disappear like a whisper. After you've scanned through your body start counting your breaths again. This time count to 10 and restart repeatedly. Silence thoughts and feelings with the same method. If you get distracted it's not a problem; just start over with the counting. Alternate between these two until you feel relaxed and like things are quiet. There's other methods for visualization but those two are the most useful in my experience. To come out of the trance like state you'll be in, reconnect with your senses by noticing one sense at a time. I usually start with hearing first and open them up one by one until the only thing left to do is open my eyes. I'll open my eyes and take a few minutes to just absorb what's happening around me before going on with my day
nope. in fact you'll need to do it if you want to live the best life
No, it has a myriad of mental and physical benefits - makes you less emotionally reactive, improved memory, reduced blood pressure, improved recovery time, etc.
Look up "mindfulness meditation." You can start practicing within minutes. Start slow and gradually increase the duration to an hour or more. Like any other habits, consistency is key. Be well.
SUCK MY TONGUE, BIGOT
look at the filename, chud
why do all religions eventually lead to pedophilia?
Same reason why all rock stars and rappers are pedophiles. When you're worshipped you can do whatever you want.
"religions" dont, but it often happens in monasterial organizations because they eventually reach a point where they recruit people for monkhood who are not suited for it. Men who arent suited for celibacy basically become "forced" to become celibates. Such men dont do well with a life of not fricking women, but they also do not want to mess up and go to hell or affront their religion some way, so they find loopholes and excuses for fricking men and sometimes boys.
You Chinese dudes are into some weird porn
Christ cucks will let their children get raped by priest so they can go to heaven but get mad when Buddhist lamas do the same? Sucking a little kids tongue isn't even the most controversial thing Dali lama did it's just the most publicized because it happaned in the post me too era.
A israeli rabbi sucks the penis of every baby israeli boy, but no one speaks up against this.
A israeli rabbi mutilates little babies every time one is born and more rabbi mutilate babies than suck their dicks so...
Non-moving meditation = useless
Moving mediation = based
Types:
-10mins of kettlebell/clubbell swings
-Lite Sparring (30% Max Limit)
-Park skateboarding
so that's just called doing workout?
Yes
That.. is not meditation. Meditative perhaps.
Sit.
Practice cranking up your body heat with just your mind.
I always start overheating whenever I do sitting meditation.
Is there any difference with meditating in a pose like that and just laying on the floor doing the same thing?
I believe not, provided you do the same mental exercise. Easier to fall asleep, though.
pulled me out of a year long depression
can you explain what you did?
Started with headspace on netflix, did that every day for a few months. Moved onto traditional meditation for 20 minutes a day
watch this series, then try the things in it for 2 weeks
Depends, I unironically found that lifting is my form of meditation after having tried both.
To meditate is to disconnect from yourself, your problems and insecurities, let go of anxiety to relax and reflect. You are an outsider to outside stimulus, so you are alone with yourself, without judgement or strife.
If sitting cross legged, in silence; in darkness or in the sun, is the way you do it more power to you.
Sometimes while I do my reps I like to reflect on my problems, while I do and close my eyes the world blurs.
Rep in breathe out rep out breathe in, so on.
When I'm done with the set and move to another station, I remember there was music blasting in the gym, that there were other people around me.
Meditation however you perform it can give you some peace of mind, stillness in this fast paced world.
You just have to try things and find how your own method.
>Sometimes while I do my reps I like to reflect on my problems, while I do and close my eyes the world blurs.
>Rep in breathe out rep out breathe in, so on.
>When I'm done with the set and move to another station, I remember there was music blasting in the gym, that there were other people around me.
Yes. Just do psychedelics every 2-3 months for 90% of the benefits at 0% of the effort.
The problem with psychedelics is that I trip and then don't actually do anything to fix my life afterwards
>woosh'd
Meditation is a meme. It's just a way to make yourself feel funny for a while and some religious asiatics and pajeets created a whole mythology around it. Read The Buddha Pill by Miguel Farias, it looks at the most recent information regarding meditation and the brain. The tldr is that meditation, depending on your physiology, either does nothing for you or can exacerbate mental illness and any positive benefit is literally just derived from being slightly more spiritual and feeling as though your life has meaning, which can be archived in a lot more efficient and enjoyable ways like reading Aristotle or Schopenhauer or being a Taoist.
>finding meaning of life through Schopenhauer
Black person did you even read it? He just took eastern philosophy and applied it to art
A book like "the Buddha pill" sounds incel as frick anyway. I just know that a buddhist monk has been declared the happiest person on Earth therefore it can't be that bad as you make it to be
Meditation doesn't have to be religious or spiritual, there a benefits to sitting still, with your eyes closed and focusing on one specific thing.
Having meditated for 1 hour a day every day, the change is enormous.
How fricking cucked is our society when being alone with yourself and doing some introspection can be seen as a bad thing.
Meditating is the single best thing any modern person living in the modern world can do for their mental health, because of how far removed everyone is from their own minds and themselves.
Its not a meme, it has been done for thousands of years for a reason.
None of those buck broken millennial and zoomers can be alone with their thoughts for more than 2 minutes before they're back on their cell phones.
The ability to place and maintain your conscious attention for prolonged periods is useful in all areas of life. Moreover, meditation has been shown to have positive effects on mood and outlook.
Lastly, expert mediators are able to control how their brain works.
it's been overexploited as a concept so yes it is technically a meme. Also it works for some people not for others.
Going on a retreat is as good if not better than meditating for 30 mins every day but then leading an ADHD lifestyle
It’s all placebo hippie nonsense. However the placebo can have some health benefits as a good mind can lead to a good body, but there are so many better things for your life than meditating, like eating clean, not drinking alcohol etc etc.
Being a human in the material universe is the placebo.
There is no god. Anon. There are no chakras or ‘energy’
Catchra are the nerves.
Energy are thots
I remember when i was edgy like you
You know he never said this right?
He did tho, big surprise to you too, most scientists especially physicists and mathematicians are very religious.
Except for Chemists, those fricking morons are the most arrogant c**ts you'll ever meet, their discipline isn't that hard anyway it's basically kitchen stuff.
Imagine being so moronic you believe in a magical sky daddy and post fake quotes to justify it.
Couldn't be me.
>there is no god
yes
>there are no chakras or energy
wrong. very very different things you're talking about here
complete waste of time and only for schizos and tards who are too dumb to know what to do with their time
/x/ is that way
its only a meme if you live a sheltered western life with no personal tragedies (yet)
It’s hard especially in todays world and requires work like everything else. I’ve been trying to be consistent. I’ve found it more helpful than any therapist.
Go download Reggie rays Mahamudra for the modern world. It will set you on the right path if you are actually interested. https://t.me/TibetanMahayana
its not, but imo most people dont understand it. you shouldnt be directly trying to quiet the mind because that wont work, you cant directly quiet the mind, but the mind naturally becomes quiet due to correct meditation practice
i read osho and also practice this stuff and from my experience the correct way to meditate is just to watch the thoughts. youll get pulled into them again and again but every time you notice you got pulled into them and step out is like a rep. you get 'stronger' and 'stronger' each time you do that. and therefore 'better' at meditation
when you watch the mind like this, it naturally settles down, it naturally quiets down. this is what i mean when i say that a quiet, or quieter mind is a natural byproduct of good and correct meditation practice
the goal of meditation is to become more and more disidentified with mind. and how this works is the more you watch your thoughts, the more you get out of the mind and more into 'awareness'. awareness is a higher state, higher consciousness if you will, but this is more advanced and beginners should just focus on watching the mind in the beginning to not confuse themselves and put too much on the plate
Its great. You don't have to go down the crazy buddhist shit, you can just meditate as a practice. It has a number of benefits; it's not magic, but its so easy to do and takes nothing but a little time, that its completely worth it. The main thing is brain fatigue: you spend your time every day focused on so many things that your brain just gets focus-fatigue. Meditation allows you to focus on just...nothing in particular for a bit, and it has a nice reset effect on the brain. You don't even have to do it for a long time, 10-20 minutes is more than enough for starting and just switching between tasks. Its one of the most studied things in literature, and has show some very clear benefits.
Super easy. Just sit quietly, focus on your breathing and slow your breathing, and just observe your thoughts as they come and go. After 15 minutes, you're done.
no
doing it for a reason is
>He didn't do starting sit
Do you even sit?
>meditate
>mind is more clear on the regular
>less foggy head, can stop for extended periods of time to make informed decisions
>sleep better and nigh immediately when going to bed
>stop meditating for like 6 months
>head is a fricking circus
>give in more easily to compulsive urges like nail biting or scratching itches
>every night have some random song play on my head on repeat, prolonging the time it takes to sleep with +30 minutes
I am at peace with myself on whichever state of mind, but I prefer the meditative mind over the hedonistic one.
No, it helps a ton. The only people who hate on it are spergs who cant be alone with their thoughts for 10 seconds without 34 streams of media going at once. Its helped my sleep a lot, helps my stress and overall mood nicely
You're so cute anon..
Frick it. I'm gonna try it for a month. 20 min each morning after workout. I'm gonna report back when I finish schizos
Mindfulness Meditation allegedly trains you to detach from your emotions when they flair up/trigger. Idk if it's real or not since I haven't done it myself.
The Buddhist throw-away everything lifestyle however is extreme cuckery, worse than the christcuck slaves, at least they have things to look for.
Eastern meditation is most certainly a meme. The word itself is Greek and once referred to exercises to sharpen the mind instead of the spiritual lobotomy that gets peddled these days.
So many morons in this thread. If you actually had an interest you’d understand that the western version of meditation is the bullshit watered down spiritual materialism. The actual practice is not about lobotomizing yourself. Meditation is not a life raft. Mediation teaches you to swim in the ocean of experience. It’s a living breathing practice.
whats the proper way then
Here
But you’re not going to actually follow through because 99% of people wont. The older I get the more I realize most things people believe are built on bullshit and heresay. The majority have no nuance in life and no desire to go deeper than surface level so they end up with a myopic understanding of everything and wallow in misery like the cattle they are.
>t. Lobotomized moron who knows nothing of the western tradition
The western tradition really seems to be going great
Sam Harris’s app got me started down this whole path and I thank him for that but I would move on quickly. He’s a israelite and clearly not a very “enlightened” being after his trump derangement syndrome and other israelite shit.
No. Clear your mind. Ascend focus.
How do I change my Focus Level CIA/Odom style to fight the shadow fiends and lizard men?
Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu's (Sirimangalo) free online meditation course (videos and booklet) is very newcomer friendly and I recommend it to anyone interested in meditation. Every weekend there is a live meditation Q&A broadcast where you can ask a question in chat.
The word meditation doesn't mean anything specific and there is a lot to explore when it comes to it, but I think this is a nice start and a perfect practice even for those that want to just regain focus and claritiy during the day.
links to course and booklet? I just looked him up, he looks emaciated
kek, he is a skinny guy!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL603BD0B03E12F5A1
https://static.sirimangalo.org/howto/HTM_english.pdf
not sure if it counts but i started trying bikram yoga. i've been to like 10 or so sessions and only in the last one i exhausted my mind so much that i could finally follow instructions correctly. it's quite nice to come to the realization that you can do way more than you think you can.
i meditate for 10 minutes after my work out, helps me feel calm and really feel the post workout confidence. don;t take it to seriously, just sit up with eyes closed and relax.
For moronic buddhist Black person reasons, yes. Although the act of meditating itself, where you just sit down anywhere and close your eyes while letting your thoughts go is not a meme. Think of it as giving your mind a little break from all the overstimulation as well as training to be comfortable being with only yourself.
"Letting your thoughts go" is not meditating, its just relaxing. Meditation is done with intention
No, it's not a meme. It gives you inner calm and a better control over your mind, just like sports and exercise give you better control over your body. Obviously chakras, energies, and gods are fairy tales for morons, but the core benefits are real.
meditation relaxes you a little bit, gives you a fresh start to tackle the day again but so does gaming, crosswords, reading, etc
I recently finished "Waking Up - A Guide to Spirituality without Religion" by Sam Harris and it is the best thing I've ever read. From what I understand there are insights to be gained from introspection, that can't be learned from outside sources. By freeing one's consciousness of any content and experiencing consciousness itself, one can shake free from the illusion of the self. The self is the source of much suffering in our lifes. We seek pleasures and avoid pain, but it's all fleeting. How wonderful would it be, if there was a source of happiness to be found inside our own minds.
Before getting interested in this kind of stuff I was obsessed with determinism and the illusion of free will, which is a good starting point for learning about the illusion of the self I think. Ultimately there are many ways to reach a peaceful state of mind, but I think meditation is the most straight forward one.