Meditation

Meditation and contemplative practice: technique, retreats, jhana, concentration, mindfulness, what sitting feels like

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  1. nosilverv — trusted by 184 posters here
  2. vividvoid — trusted by 164 posters here
  3. the_wilderless — trusted by 143 posters here
  4. danielbrottman — trusted by 139 posters here
  5. tasshinfogleman — trusted by 132 posters here
  6. algekalipso — trusted by 153 posters here
  7. nopranablem — trusted by 125 posters here
  8. chercher_ai — trusted by 128 posters here
  9. QiaochuYuan — trusted by 142 posters here
  10. RomeoStevens76 — trusted by 118 posters here
  11. TylerAlterman — trusted by 132 posters here
  12. WystanTBS — trusted by 110 posters here

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  1. Later today, I'm beginning a 21-day solo meditation retreat in the mountains of northern Nevada. I've been preparing for this for years, and it's finally time. My intent is awakening. Please wish me… (vividvoid) — 41 likes
  2. this book addresses pretty much every problem i’ve ever had with meditation, clearly and compassionately. wow. gonna use it to restart my practice after years of neglect. much thanks to @_awbery_ 🙏… (QiaochuYuan) — 39 likes
  3. If you have a habit of being hard on yourself or are chronically unhappy, it's good to regularly strive to cultivate self-compassion, gratitude, and mindfulness. If you've tried to cultivate these… (gnostrils) — 34 likes
  4. I think I have been subtly mistaking indifference for equanimity for a long time, in many different situations, and this has been a pretty massive mistake I do know what true equanimity feels like,… (vividvoid) — 32 likes
  5. The reason bodybuilders and meditators get along so well is because they're the last two groups of people on earth who can count to 10 without getting distracted (vividvoid) — 32 likes
  6. So weird that the eightfold path is basically “start living virtuously and directing your intention towards what’s good” and meditation culture has somehow so often turned it into “optimize your… (the_wilderless) — 32 likes
  7. increasingly trippy instructions for a meditation on the self... Seeing Like a Superorganism On the surface, @micro_solid is a community-building framework, an engineer’s attempt to invent a cure… (RichDecibels) — 32 likes
  8. Hey, I'm back. It was genuinely enlightening, but I am not enlightened. Still integrating. Will write up a full treatment soon. (vividvoid) — 32 likes
  9. Remember: in higher dimensions you rarely get stuck in local maxima - usually it's a saddle point masquerading as a cul-de-sac. This is why experiencing higher (phenomenal) dimensions on… (algekalipso) — 31 likes
  10. “the jhanas are wireheading” mumbled the man flicking through the timeline looking for his next dopamine hit (_brentbaum) — 30 likes
  11. I know we're all busy with our pill selections right now BUT tomorrow marks my 100TH day of meditating 1h per day in a row (!!!!!!!) - how should i celebrate?? (nosilverv) — 30 likes
  12. at some point in my childhood in cold upstate new york, i remember having the thought "i just need to let the cold into my bones". then, the cold stopped feeling like an imposition, i stopped… (qorprate) — 30 likes
  13. The reason we don't have a good name for the meditation-psychedelic-neuroscience-individuation religion that most of us follow is because it's still Alive, it hasn't ossified into a regulating… (vividvoid) — 30 likes
  14. if you want to get an 80/20 of the benefit of Buddhism—something westerners are obsessed with, and perhaps not wrongly—practicing right speech will get you more more bang for your buck than right… (tasshinfogleman) — 28 likes
  15. I probably won’t ever publish meditation “advice” except for this: I did 15 min day on/off for YEARS, have met a bunch of people doing the same - but 1 hour turbo-charged my practice: often takes 20… (nosilverv) — 28 likes
  16. Whatever your spiritual practice is, if it's not making you more honest in your relationships, it's not working (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  17. I can't stress this enough If your spiritual practice is not deepening your honesty, making you braver in relationship, bringing you closer to the beautiful mess of real human connection, it's not… (vividvoid) — 28 likes
  18. Arriving in Toronto I have spontaneously developed a new meditation practice that I call "note big" where you look around at stuff and when you see something big you say "big" https://t.co/suksMQlRE4 (Malcolm_Ocean) — 27 likes
  19. I used to think that when Buddha said sometimes you have to clench your teeth & crush mind with mind, this was a rare instance in which he advocated for something unskillful. But I've seen so… (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  20. Summer Solstice 2024 Retreat Journal: On June 19th, I started a solo retreat in the mountains of Nevada in Oregon. I'd been planning this for years - my mentor told me to do it years ago, as a kind… (vividvoid) — 27 likes
  21. You can just invent your own meditation practice and see what happens. If you write about it, we will all learn something new. I feel that a lot of people sense they need permission to do this. Like… (algekalipso) — 26 likes
  22. For many people thinking is an addiction. Many things go better when you just turn your brain off. And if you're wondering whether you might be addicted to thinking.. just consider you're on a… (nosilverv) — 26 likes
  23. psychedelics have frequently hit me with big insights like "you should meditate more" and "go for long walks" (loopholekid) — 25 likes
  24. I'm gonna force y'all motherfuckers to get enlightened it's not even hard, everyone's just a bad teacher lol, let's go: First look at these pics https://t.co/isNfKaEfBU (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  25. thank god we don't teach meditation in schools, look what school did to math and anything beautiful (UntilTrees) — 25 likes
  26. Ok I think I figured out how to explain meditation finally lol. So, basically, there's two beats: in the first beat you are TRAINING YOUR ATTENTION. If you try to hold your attention on to something… (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  27. OKAY I have FIGURED OUT why buddhists are SO FUCKING ANNOYING about being "mindful" or "present" or "be here now" or "wash your bowl" - I think that what is happening is that you are the ILLUSION,… (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  28. Quick model of jhanaThe vasomuscular system (“tension”) acts to collapse uncertainty, set context & stabilize local neural patterns. Actions of this system typically feel bad. But you can also… (johnsonmxe) — 25 likes
  29. personally i’m still working on the zeroth jhana (not being in fight / flight / freeze) (QiaochuYuan) — 24 likes
  30. Ok, SO, I did a Jhana Jhourney retreat and I have to say that if ANYTHING they're being under-hyped: I VISIBLY put on muscle during this retreat loool (in addition to all else, noticed by both me… (nosilverv) — 24 likes
  31. shinzen young’s periodic table of happiness elements. https://t.co/6YNQQpQOMl (neats29) — 24 likes
  32. meditation app that goes “it’s so over” every time you exhale and “we’re so back” every time you inhale (visakanv) — 23 likes
  33. the year is 2038. "meditation" has become the catch-all term for not looking at a screen. gen alpha influencers tout the benefits of "meditating" for 5 minutes a day. on the subreddit they discuss… (QiaochuYuan) — 23 likes
  34. Jhana meditation cocoon in an airplane. Completely silent and undisturbed. It may not look like it, but I'm having a great time in here :-) https://t.co/t9WrJylALD (algekalipso) — 23 likes
  35. my DIY “meditation practice” is much less “calm/still/silence your mind” (for me that’s a sneaky psyop by mind-obsessed mind to use mind to self-police mind) and much more “notice the animal that… (visakanv) — 23 likes
  36. Great thread. My sense is the basic (smooth muscle) logic of the gut was copied and repurposed to “digest” thoughts. These systems are still linked & if you update your mental priors via… (johnsonmxe) — 23 likes
  37. helooo sweet chat of mine, i believe i have just experienced jhana for the first time 15 mins ago! hooray, can i get a ∞ in the chat! i almost don't want to talk about it in case the good jhana… (bashu_thanks) — 23 likes
  38. ok so i went on a @jhanatech retreat last week and not only got to experience some nice feels but also changed some of my outlook on meditation practice overall, the retreat was extremely well… (octopusyarn) — 23 likes
  39. I spent a year working towards jhana and all I got was my daily happiness going from 2.5 to 7.5, a better understanding of my subjective experience, greater skill working with my body sensations,… (AlexKrusz) — 23 likes
  40. Bhikkhus, I have reached the stage where I can observe extremely attractive women without my awareness contracting around them. You cannot imagine what powers await you (nosilverv) — 23 likes
  41. I don't know why we have so many full length books on jhana https://t.co/TcOMtAXpu9 (RomeoStevens76) — 23 likes
  42. The reason Tasshin doesn't have 100k followers is because he's one of, if not the, best-integrated practitioners in TPOT. If his wisdom sometimes seems laconic, it's bc his processes are… (vividvoid) — 22 likes
  43. Everything I'm taking in right now points to the idea that the actual spiritual practice in one's life is active participation with the real life stuff: job, partner, chores. Not the retreat, not… (strangestloop) — 22 likes
  44. i'm back!! retreat was great!!!! massive thanks to @jhanatech and Judah Newman, also lovely to get to practice with @br___ian! i will write more about the retreat soon but tldr is i had ups and… (danielbrottman) — 22 likes
  45. River’s Official ‘How The Fuck Did Meditation Teachers Omit This Shit??’ List: 1. Meditating the body is The Thing 2. Sort your emotional shit prior 3. Sort your material shit out 4. Open awareness… (the_wilderless) — 21 likes
  46. lethargic from sitting all day -> jog for 10m -> immediate ideas in the shower wish I’d been taught to take care of myself full-stack instead of loose pieces of advice meditation - unlocks… (exgenesis) — 21 likes
  47. i keep noticing this CRAZY thing where everytime i practice metta i get really spontaneously motivated and inspired to take creative action (s0ulDirect0r) — 21 likes
  48. Couple things: 1. I'm working with the Jhourney team part time on marketing/growth! 2. We've got a few retreats coming up this winter. If you've been curious about jhana meditation and want to dive… (nopranablem) — 21 likes
  49. it's me, i'm tpot meditators https://t.co/g0Z9TFIdNK (danielbrottman) — 21 likes
  50. a jhanasseur, if you will https://t.co/WBqKj8EVmy (danielbrottman) — 21 likes

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