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> May everyone reading this be happy and free. सुभ्मस्तु as I would say in Sanskrit.
What does this mean? And how would you transliterate it?
May everyone reading this be happy and free.
The Remarkable Brain Waves of High Level Meditators [video]
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#152What I am interested to know is if meditation correlates with increased ability to cope with life problems. Because many people treat it like a refuge from the hardships of life, not a super boost in mental powers. I have hardcore practiced meditation for 20 years and some of my colleagues who were doing the same were in a pretty bad state - unmarried, with a low level job and not owning their house. They weren't on…
So sad to see all the downvotes without any real feedback for an honest comment and I think anyone that invested serious time in meditation knows the "danger" of becoming too detached. In my case, it seriously increased my resistance to stress so much that I could just calmly "walk away" from bad situations (impossible deadlines, bad bosses, etc.) when my mind said "no". This may seem great for keeping your sanity and happiness but it also causes serious problems with commitments and finances. I completely agree that you need to really work hard to balance the benefits of meditation with the adverse effects (as far as modern life concerns, unless you plan to join a monastery or spend the rest of your days as homeless) if you ever go beyond 30 minutes/day.
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#153Western concept of meditation (mudra-holding sitting in a crowded room, wearing special yoga pants) has almost nothing to do with the original meaning, which was "let the mind stop by itself, become 100% idle, so the so called primordial awareness - life itself, which is prior to the language-based intellect, could be realized as one's own true nature", which uses breathing techniques, isolation from society, solitude (contrary to the narcissistically idiotic group settings), moderate austerities (the Buddha strongly emphasized futility of the extreme ones) and balanced body-mind complex in general.
All that cosplay, which almost screams at you - "I am yogin, look at me, I am meditator, look at me! I have this spiritual hairstyle and all the mystic tattoos", is so distant from the original meaning of the ancient practices, it is just ridiculous.
Study must be bad, because they obviously does not have any proper setting, like everything-else-being-equal, proper control groups, etc.
I could challenge any naive yoga-meditation zealot with assertion, that breath-holding divers, Nepalese porters (high altitude goods carriers) and marathon runners will exhibit similar but much better physiological reading, because the most important part is any yoga/meditation practices is regularity and restoring the original balance of the body/mind complex which is just proper homeostasis.
Rally, try these divers, porters and paraphon runners - they will put all the narcissistic yogins/meditators into shame.
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#155I just don't get it. It's difficult enough to spend 1000's of hours on honing my craft. How can I possibly justify that sort of investment in meditation? If you tell me it helps those with sleep issues, mental blocks, psychological issues, or addiction, your point is well taken and understood. But for those of us blessed to be in relatively sound mind, how will we benefit from meditation?
It will improve your craft and you don’t need to allocate time away from the latter to do so. You can do both at the same time. Put more simply; when you’re doing the dishes, do the dishes. Focus on the sensation of the water on your hands and the movement of your muscles as you scrub and dry them. When your mind wanders away from that as it tends to do, acknowledge that your mind has wandered and gently bring it bac…
I'm not sure I understand that analogy. When I'm doing the dishes I've never had my mind wander to where it adversely affects me doing the dishes. Is it just a way to focus better?
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#156I see lot of good suggestions for starting out in meditation but I see lots of "use this app, go to this camp, read this" While in reality meditation is an exercise you need to practice in order to build that muscle. I don't like people productizing what's already has been available for millenias. Basically the core of meditation is not escaping as some people have mistakenly believe but simply allow yourself to beco…
> Another technique I found was when you are sitting in your bed in a dark room with your eyes slightly open and focusing on a point in space. You will see everything fade to white and it's very easy to slip into the meditative state. I don't know what this is called as I discovered by accident during my teenage years.
This is Troxler's fading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading
> I don't like people productizing what's already has been available for millenias.
As long as people are only being introduced to meditation in a user-friendly manner, I don't see the harm in productizing. Maybe some users will get interested enough to go look up original sources or carry on meditating without a product/crutch.
The only organisations that are doing some harm IMO are cults and/or those that profess to have a secret formula that they only disclose for money. Transcendental Meditation is one such organisation.
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http://web.mit.edu/6.111/www/f2017/handouts/FFTtutorial12110... shows an FFT implementation using a Cyclone EP2C20 FPGA. It can do 50ksps, 1K points, 12bit precision, 100 µsec/1K complex FFT @ 50Khz clock. May be a Zynq can be used to build a standalone device? I wonder if the EEG signals can tell if your attention wanders. That may help improve meditation. Have you looked at/played with the Muse or Muse2 EEG headban…
That's exactly what we were doing (without an FPGA), you need at least 8 sensors to properly localize attention though (based on our experiments). Things like the Muse I highly doubt work effectively
Coming from the RF world, those numbers honestly seem trivial for processing. Is it just a money issue or is nobody willing to build something like you did?
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#158For those who are interested and new to meditation, I started meditating several years ago with Headspace and YouTube videos of Jonathan Kabat Zinn and others. It's a great place to start. I later went on a silent meditation retreat and learned a lot more about meditation and got confident with techniques I could practice on my own. This may not be available to everyone due to the time commitment (and being completel…
In practical terms, how do you feel meditation has changed you? Curious to learn more
Meditation teaches key skills like mindfulness, self awareness, radical acceptance, emotion regulation, patience, discipline, and more.
Headspace is a great app to get started because they walk you through and teach you the skills slowly but surely. You can also skip around to what you need most after you learn the basics.
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#159For those who are interested and new to meditation, I started meditating several years ago with Headspace and YouTube videos of Jonathan Kabat Zinn and others. It's a great place to start. I later went on a silent meditation retreat and learned a lot more about meditation and got confident with techniques I could practice on my own. This may not be available to everyone due to the time commitment (and being completel…
Do you have any tips for finding a meditation group or retreat recommendations?
Would a yoga class count as meditation?
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Yet most spiritual disciplines proffer strictures against chasing pleasurable meditative states. They can arise, but are generally not supposed to be sought, nor held on to. After arising, they fall away, and that is fine - all the same to a serious meditator. However you might assess such disciplines (I'm not sure myself), it's pretty clear that pleasure and getting high is absolutely not their aim - indeed attachme…
Those just seem to be more rarified forms of pleasure for experts. It's like forgoing the gatorade to savor crystal clear water after a run, or something.
That would seem to be a use of the term 'pleasure' rarifying it beyond meaningful use ;)