I like it a lot. I was hoping it would be installable as a PWA.
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I don't get what you're saying. Anyway, I think meditation is best when used for thinking, not for not-thinking.
I'm curious, best for what? Personally, I don't need any practice to think - but not thinking, that's very challenging! And practicing has been very rewarding.
Best use of time ethically speaking. Goal is to develop ideas.
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#63I can't explain it but my brain can't handle that this is a website and not a mobile app.
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I'm curious, best for what? Personally, I don't need any practice to think - but not thinking, that's very challenging! And practicing has been very rewarding.
Best use of time ethically speaking. Goal is to develop ideas.
I don't know about you but I have way too many ideas. Some are good, most of them are terrible, and some of them are downright evil. It often takes a quiet mind to see which is which and not talk myself into indulging bad ideas.
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> So, it'd be hard to pull off such an attack. That's what you'd think, but people rarely pay that much attention. The fullscreen prompt only shows up for a few seconds. For example, recently a family member clicked on a fake YouTube link from an ad in Google's search results. Clicked the search bar and it immediately turned their whole screen into a "call apple support" popup. They called me up because they thought…
That's why I've installed adblock on every relative/friend's browser. Also disabled browser's notifications. Then one day one of them blindly followed instructions to remove it so they can access an online newspaper. The only time they could actually follow instructions, it was actually malicious.
> Then one day one of them blindly followed instructions to remove it so they can access an online newspaper.
Wow. That's a new level of evil. I've seen "disable your adblocker", but not "remove your adblocker".
This makes it even more justifiable that adblockers remove anti-adblock messages, beyond just removing annoyances. :)
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#66I like the simple approach. And as a practical matter, just chillin' is safe. But still: [sitting] can get uncomfortable. But when you finish, for some strange reason you feel better Meditation requires some guidance appropriate to the person. Some people are attracted to meditation for the wrong reasons; encouraging them without proper direction can make things go badly for them. Zen shinkanzen in particular is cons…
Let's hear it. How are we going to hurt ourselves by waiting for a timer to tick for a minute or two without the safety blanket of scrolling Twitter?
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I'm curious, best for what? Personally, I don't need any practice to think - but not thinking, that's very challenging! And practicing has been very rewarding.
Best use of time ethically speaking. Goal is to develop ideas.
May I ask what's unethical about sitting and doing nothing for a little while or meditating without a goal?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious, best for what? Personally, I don't need any practice to think - but not thinking, that's very challenging! And practicing has been very rewarding.
Best use of time ethically speaking. Goal is to develop ideas.
Sounds like hustle/grind/productivity/self-optimization.
Many have gone through that and found they need more balance, and practicing non-thought is a good way (the best? Dunno) of getting that.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Best use of time ethically speaking. Goal is to develop ideas.
I don't know about you but I have way too many ideas. Some are good, most of them are terrible, and some of them are downright evil. It often takes a quiet mind to see which is which and not talk myself into indulging bad ideas.
For me it's not even that I have bad ideas that I find problematic about my thinking (though I do of course), sometimes they just hurt. Kinda like how you might walk around and stub your toe and now you're like, ouch, this is frustrating, and an unreasonably intense pain for such a minor and commonplace injury. In the same way, sometimes I'm minding my business and a painful thought pops into my head and it's like, no thank you, I don't really need that. (A stubbed toe is also a good estimate for how much they hurt.)
Sitting and just sort of existing for a little while without thinking (to the extent I'm able to refrain from thinking, which varies) keeps me grounded in the world beyond thought. If you forgot you had an entire body and thought you were just a foot, stubbing your toe would hurt a lot more.
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#70I like the simple approach. And as a practical matter, just chillin' is safe. But still: [sitting] can get uncomfortable. But when you finish, for some strange reason you feel better Meditation requires some guidance appropriate to the person. Some people are attracted to meditation for the wrong reasons; encouraging them without proper direction can make things go badly for them. Zen shinkanzen in particular is cons…
Let's hear it. How are we going to hurt ourselves by waiting for a timer to tick for a minute or two without the safety blanket of scrolling Twitter?
To be fair, they did say:
> [A]s a practical matter, just chillin' is safe.
I'm an autodidact so this chaffed at me too. But I have met people who've gone in a very strange direction by assembling a syncretic set of ideas plucked from different schools of thought, and ended up with something that was kinda nuts. And operating from this nutty set of principles sometimes lead them to make bad decisions, and made it very difficult to communicate with them.
I don't know think having guidance from a teacher is the only way to avoid that, but I think without feedback from others in some way it's really easy to start believing your own bullshit.