meditation
The art of sitting and doing nothing.
john 🌀
@know
An Irish Perspective on Zen Buddhism and Meditation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxqkQViTy7c
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Dwayne 'The Jock' Ronson
@dwayne
https://farcaster.xyz/triumph/0xb7e5d023
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jp 🎩
@jpfraneto.eth
have been practicing self inquiry (ramana maharshi style) for about 3 years every time that i remember. also on my meditation practice. feeling fascinated by how my “mind”, or notion of self has become like a definite bag of tension that lies behind my eyes it’s as if all of what my awareness perceives as “jp” and what constitutes that egoic construct is condensing and wrapped on to a bag of sensations that another part of me knows that is not me so the practice becomes to release the identification with that tension. and what comes after that feels like freedom. or openness. it’s as if i was a balloon and this tension is what is inside the balloon (or the plastic of the balloon) and life and god and everything that is is outside the balloon and the balloon itself (its walls) is “me” and that “me-nees” is becoming free of itself and it’s scary but also everything that i ever want in life it’s tricky to identify with it tho bc that’s what solidifies the balloon’s walls: ego
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john 🌀
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timour
@timour
If you meditate and want to clear your mind, I highly recommend meditating in a different language. When I “switch” my mind to a language I’m not fluent in, my thoughts don’t run away because I don’t speak Spanish/German well enough. I’ve had 1-2 min stretches with 0 thoughts
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proyanka 🦉
@priyanka
i just got @christin’s Debug Your Meditation ebook on Paperview
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john 🌀
@know
Sitting down to meditate you might get caught in the idea that you need to fix something - that something is wrong and meditations job is to produce a certain state. Instead, it can be helpful just to be curious about where attention is at any moment and to gently return it to rest in the body if it's wandered.
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john 🌀
@know
If you're going to FarCon next week, on the Saturday you could go and learn from a great meditation teacher at 09:30 and be free by 15:00. What a blessing it'd be to be in NYC! https://henryshukman.com/events/nyc-daylong-may-2025
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OMGiDRAWEDit 🦎
@omgidrawedit
I’ve been regularly fasting on a Monday and it’s been pretty good. Mental clarity is good and I get into some pretty wild places when i meditate fasted. However cannot wait for dinner.
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Shibuya
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john 🌀
@know
Everybody has the potential to change. Anybody who doubts this has yet to meditate. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche
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:grin:
@grin
im doing a weeklong jhana-focused meditation retreat starting tomorrow evening. any advice for a first-timer? (also im gonna be offline and incommunicado for a week. dont miss me too much)
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Harold Holness
@coach-holness
Meditation practice: Volume all the way up- close your eyes and hear the waves and breathe. *Waves captured this AM during ocean walk. I hope these 20 seconds brings you some peace today. Replay if needed 🙏🏾
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john 🌀
@know
“Wisdom invite us to take a breath, to step out of the body of fear, and to recognize that the world is not a problem to solve, but a living organism to which we belong. Loving awareness says, ‘Take your seat, open your heart, and step into the vast, timeless reality of love.’” Jack Kornfield
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john 🌀
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The path of pausing ~ Pema Chödron “The primary focus of this path of choosing wisely, of this training to de-escalate aggression, is learning to stay present. Pausing very briefly, frequently throughout the day, is an almost effortless way to do this. For just a few seconds we can be right here. Meditation is another way to train in learning to stay, or, as one student put it more accurately, learning to come back, to return to being present over and over again.”
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