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christin
@christin
I am a neuroscientist phd who trained in buddhist chaplaincy and coached 400+ folks on meditation habits and early entrepreneurship mindset One thing I've noticed: practitioners tend to have an "ideal" version of themselves as meditators, like the "ghost" we race against in Mario Kart time trial...(con't)
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christin
@christin
...If we recognize we are doing that, then we get closer to directly experiencing "what-is" while meditating There is a Zen koan that says if you meet the Buddha in the streets, kill him! It is a similar analogy, the "ghost" perfect meditator...that's not what's happening now. You are. Imperfectly perfect.
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Khalid
@xkhalid
Haha I never imagined it as the ghost kart but makes sense. There is no right meditator, there’s only you right now!
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frdysk.framedl.eth
@frdysk
interesting, i always see the 'ghost' me doing something else that leads to a forking of my current timeline
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