For How Long Do You Contemplate?

[samijiben]

How long is your contemplation practice (assuming you have one)?

How often do you do it?

Don't give me some bullshit like 2 hours lol if you sit for that long with one single question in your mind given undivided attention with intense observation... 🫡

I only go a few minutes before I veer off into distraction. Contemplating is fucking difficult. 

[Salvijus]

Until you get the answer, more or less. 

Edited July 7 by Salvijus

[PurpleTree]

My only "practice" is basically looking at beliefs. If you call that contemplation then i do it a lot.

[Hojo]

I am contemplating all day non stop. You dont have to sit there and do it you can do other things. The distraction is part of your contemplation. Your brain is telling you links to what you want to know and you are saying not that. But you contemplate with your imagination and your logic. You might not think what your imagination is telling you has anything to do with what you are trying to contemplate but it does. Contemplate is you put a subject in your mind and let your imagination and intellect fuck around with it.

Edited July 7 by Hojo

[samijiben]

Fascinating. I am spoiled by this forum and at risk of brainwashing myself by stealing your insights and using them to my advantage.

 

[aurum]

I don't like having any sort of formal practice. I just contemplate all day on various topics. 

[Natasha Tori Maru]

I do not set any length. There is no end.

I walk the dog, I contemplate. I fold the laundry, I contemplate. I document the jobsites, I contemplate. I order doors, contemplate. Write an email to the architect, contemplate. Rub my freshly showered feet in the clean sheets, contemplate. Sit in the darkness waiting for sleep, contemplate. Walk the streets in the rain, contemplate. Shit, contemplate.

There are endless subjects that arise to contemplate as a result of all these quotidian life tasks. The mistake is stopping your life to contemplate, removing the physical.

Being physical during the process brings being to the concept, until I have warn both concept and myself down, like a knife being sharpened on a rock. Both my being and the practice are eroded. Warn down to dissolution, but sharpened also. Truth is in this space. 

If you are genuinely curious, it will happen in perpetuity.

Edited July 8 by Natasha Tori Maru

[Rishabh R]

Usually 30 minutes and once in a week. Few times I contemplated for an hour.

[CARDOZZO]

18 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Rub my freshly showered feet in the clean sheets, contemplate.

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[Natasha Tori Maru]

2 minutes ago, CARDOZZO said:

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I knew I was speaking directly to someone here! YOU!

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[CARDOZZO]

35 minutes ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

I knew I was speaking directly to someone here! YOU!

You might also appreciate: 'new sock feel' + 'contemplate'

<3

Foot fetish 😂🥰