Meditation is a thing that you do with your attention. When you pay attention or concentrate or get distracted, that’s you doing a thing with your attention. And that’s obviously important stuff in your life and the world. Meditation takes it further.

We basically have 2 kinds of meditation.

  1. Concentration meditation, which is plain ol concentration taken to a higher level.

  2. Zen meditation (aka shikantaza), which is another thing to do with your attention, kindof a left turn from concentration and is a bit esoteric.

So there you go.

  • fluffy_cloud@piefed.worldOPEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Thanks. Keep in mind that that’s the rare best-case scenario. My daily best is more like 5 minutes.

    Getting my life to where that best-case scenario happens more often is a big deal for me. I work on that.