Coding As A Substitute For Meditation?
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Coding As A Substitute For Meditation?
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Re: Coding As A Substitute For Meditation?
#2Similarly, I've found that playing engrossing video games draws most of my attention from pain -- or anything else really.
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#3To be fair - there's a massive different between focusing on something you're passinate about (like coding) and focusing on not thinking. Not thinking and letting your mind relax is completely different from, and often way harder than, thinking about a passion.
Jusy "getting in the flow" is not the point of most meditation.
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#4Why not do both until you understand the real differences?
The reason people voluntarily stay up late to code, while meditation by contrast seems kind of boring — the reason why people are so eager to come up with different "substitutes" for meditation that just so happen to align with their favorite things to do — is very near the essence of why meditation probably shouldn't be replaced by coding, or running, skiing, drinking, smoking, or whatever your favorite activity is.
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#6To be fair - there's a massive different between focusing on something you're passinate about (like coding) and focusing on not thinking. Not thinking and letting your mind relax is completely different from, and often way harder than, thinking about a passion. Jusy "getting in the flow" is not the point of most meditation.
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#7Perhaps there are comparisons to be drawn between the two, but I think don't think they should be dependent on set amounts of time doing them: After an hour of coding something, I'm likely to either want to continue hacking on what I started, work on something else, or stop working entirely(rather than presumably continue working with a refreshed mental state..?).
Part of meditation is precisely /not/ doing or thinking about anything. As another comment pointed out, this is sort of finding a substitute for meditation in something most of us would likely being doing anyways, since the majority of us have trouble breaking out of our day-to-day cycle to literally sit for 15 minutes and do nothing whilst so much is going on regardless. I think there are similarities to be drawn in terms of "flow" or getting "in the zone" so to speak while writing code, though.
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#8No. What you described is called flow.
There is a good chance however that practicing meditation will help you find more 'flow' in your activities.
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#9Exceptionally misguided. Having meditated for an average of forty minutes every day (sometimes for as much as 2 hours a day, in 40 minute blocks) for the last half year and having coded many, many hours in my life, I can say that this conclusion is decidedly incorrect. Most forms of meditation are about doing nothing except breathing. Coding, like any other task, is far from this. Again, exceedingly misguided.
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#10This is wrong on so many levels. Why is this on the front page?