Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?

Post by Gizzle » Thu, Feb 03, 2011, 4:38 PM UTC

kingsidharth wrote: post #120

Gizzle wrote: post #118

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Please explain: if it keeps you alert, you also have to concentrate your thoughts on this. Isn't this in contradiction to let all thoghts go? Thanks for an answer...

You make me want to go into Zen teachings now. So I will summarize them as much as I can: What I meant: Thoughts: Things going on. Alert: Being aware of something. Observing something (can be thoughts) Not being alert: You will drift off to sleep. Meditation: Focusing (as in deliberative) and/ or Observing something that doesn't go on into endless thinking tank. Let go of thoughts: that become an essay. Start thinkin…