Nice. Thanks. I do Shikantaza mself.

I’m a sperg and I meditate.

Shikantaza.

It gets me high, expands my world, makes things smooth.

It overcomes it the way levitation might overcome a limp.

You could have just said “Beware!” or “Dooooooommmmm!!!”. No need for such verbosity.

Even when learning to play a instrument you get feedback. When you twang the strings with your inexpert fingers and make a sound. That’s a huge source of guidance.

In meditation that feedback is key. A dozen feelings and effects. You experiment. You feel your way through the darkness.

Without that you are guided by … what?

No it isn’t. It’s like saying if you don’t feel anything at all then you just stop lifting weights the way you’re doing it. A strain in your muscles. A little sweat. A little worn out. Anything.

And if you don’t feel anything, then maybe change your routine. Increase your reps. Increase your weight.

Because otherwise, what exactly are you doing? Just banging out some formula and hoping for the best? Hoping the happy story that your teacher told you someday comes true? That’s dumb.

The results are the guide. You feel your way along with that feedback.

Yes, even with mindfulness meditation.

If you are not guided by results then what guides you, a happy story?

Lol indeed

… results of meditation are never immediate or even obvious, just over time, if one persists, things get a little easier.

Speak for yourself.

In fact, a classic warning is to beware of getting carried away by the bliss/high that commonly arrives.

So I gotta say. If it ain’t getting you high, or producing even a little bit of noticeable effect, then you would do well to experiment with other techniques.

I do mindfulness meditation too. It’s a big thing in my life.

I taste your nick

Because “knowing it” isn’t the whole picture.

It’s actually only a very tiny part of the picture.

You’re asking about what motivates you. Knowing can motivate. Experience motivates more tho. So does habit and some other stuff.

Ah. Nobody can afford un-enshittified products anymore.

It’s progressive invisible poverty.

Overwhelming emotion is the mind killer. I will let the overwhelming emotion pass over me and through me. And after it is gone silence will remain.

That’s basically vipassana meditation. It’s the only technique I’ve found.

I think everybody else just fakes it. A calm smile masking raging insanity

You’re just a lazy asshole.

That’s my favorite

From the ocean of laziness comes fabulous fishes. But you have to enter the ocean of laziness first. You’ve got to submit to it and be okay with it. And then when you are all floppy and spread out like that, a true inspiration will arise.

Is “i don’t want to” enough? No justification. Just I don’t want to.

I think that the heart of executive dysfunction is the conflict between your own guiding forces and the guiding forces offered by society.

In our society it is assumed that it is only good and healthy that you submit to the latter. And the vast majority of us do, smoothly and automatically.

But some of us are different and this process of submission is not smooth. It might not even happen at all. There will be that ongoing conflict.

This is truth

And after 20 minutes yr exhausted and leave.

Google keep. That yellow thing. Take notes constantly. SO useful. And voice to text. Wow

I relate. Dread every day.

My answer was to draw and read scifi all day. Let my grades slide. Ignore everything.

I graduated because… I dunno. I think they just wanted me out of there.