Plesiohedron

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

Yeah, your neighbors sound pretty bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago (2 children)

I hate working for Indian people. Every time it's a bad experience.

I'm a carpenter.

I feel justified but I also feel a bit racist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago

People in the community with special power and anonymity. No. That doesn't work either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain't so great.

Neither is having classes of people who you aren't allowed to offend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

As the Buddhist monks say : "poverty is our shield"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nice. Thanks. I do Shikantaza mself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I'm a sperg and I meditate.

Shikantaza.

It gets me high, expands my world, makes things smooth.

It overcomes it the way levitation might overcome a limp.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A swail (swale) is defined as "a shallow ditch". Which rhymes with shallow bitch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could have just said "Beware!" or "Dooooooommmmm!!!!". No need for such verbosity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Icarus. The wings made of wax and stuff. He got too high so the gods slapped him.

Total metaphor of course. He was a shaman, took too much shrooms, had a legendarily bad trip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Even when learning to play a instrument you get feedback. When you twang the strings with your inexpert fingers and make a sound. That's a huge source of guidance.

In meditation that feedback is key. A dozen feelings and effects. You experiment. You feel your way through the darkness.

Without that you are guided by ... what?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

No it isn't. It's like saying if you don't feel anything at all then you just stop lifting weights the way you're doing it. A strain in your muscles. A little sweat. A little worn out. Anything.

And if you don't feel anything, then maybe change your routine. Increase your reps. Increase your weight.

Because otherwise, what exactly are you doing? Just banging out some formula and hoping for the best? Hoping the happy story that your teacher told you someday comes true? That's dumb.

The results are the guide. You feel your way along with that feedback.

 

Science involves concentration upon observed phenomena and, to a lesser degree, a body of models. The goal is to make good models.

Engineering is like science but heavier on the models. The goal is to make good machines.

Art is like science but lighter on the models. And some of the observed phenomena are esoteric. The goal is to make good art.

All 3 use concentration. Concentration is important.

 

Are you autistic and also meditate?

What Is your meditation technique?

What effect does the meditation have on you?

What effect does the meditation have on your autism?

 

Do you have ADHD and also meditate?

What Is your meditation technique?

What effect does the meditation have on you?

What effect does the meditation have on your ADHD?

 

And it sticks. I mean, focus your attention in that little world of meanings and symbols long enough and you'll tend to get stuck there.

But reality is infinitely larger than that little world. So to stay there, in that little world, to have your perspective altered like that all the time, is a bit unhealthy and insane.

But this is considered normal. Encouraged even.

 

This works for both physical things and ideas, which implies that physical things and ideas are similar.

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