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I have been doing zazen meditation as 2-3 hours per day for 10+ years. The way I see it, mindfulness practices and meditation gives long term effects because you are doing the effort yourself. It's not the mental state you are in during the meditation that brings the long term benefits. What works is your constant effort to look at your mind and notice what it does, even when you are distracted or feel vexed and espe…
But meditating for 2-3 hours PER DAY seems a bit excessive, no? Then meditating for 10-16 hours per days seems really excessive. It's almost like you're saying, these people who meditate, they don't really meditate, they just pay lip service. To meditate you have to be dedicated and spend 2-3 hours per day doing it if you're going to it correctly.
I think it's an important observation to point out to that this device may intact hinder the desired effects of (at least) zazen.
People watch TV or play games for mutiple hours, meditating 2-3hours seems hardly excessive in light of that.