Frankly I’m only skimming these posts so it’s entirely possible that I misinterpreted what you were saying I’m sorry
you’ve never read those books
He’s writing another one - he’s writing another NmaEssay
Jesus Christ I give up
I will. A2pas
Well anyway, I am not a thorough meditation practitioner, but I would consider myself a fairly knowledgable armchair philologist. And I particularly love to pore over the Eastern writings on this stuff.
It made me a bit sensitive to the modern individualist approach that leads to a bunch of tech bros closing their eyes and breathing heavy so they can sit in front of a computer for 10 hours without killing themselves.
Though by all means do so if it prevents you from killing yourself
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One concrete result I would give, judging from my readings and not experience, is complete impartiality.
i started reading an ebook on meditation
(just downloaded it on library genesis)
it tries to sell the general goal of meditation as becoming better at / mastering controlling one's focus and awareness towards things u would want to want to think about and focus on etc
idk maybe ill post more about it when i read more
i have not even really attempted step 1 of its 10 steps to mastery thing, step 1 being establishing a [consistent] practice
meh i have the time so i might as well try
Sounds like you’re doing more Fing than Ting private
he really hasnt and its sad lol
DotA surely is the ultimate form of Anti-Meditation, getting yourself as mentally unstable and tilted as possible
+1
qv
If meditation is about personal improvement and becoming a better, more pleasant, level-headed, patient etc etc person then dota is about as far from that as it gets