Meditation one-liners

[YIDIRYIDIR]

Drop your best one-liners that explain the benefits of Meditation and *make it click* why it's a must for anyone really but specifically for self-actualizers (non-spiritual stuff)
I always struggle with meditating consistently as i take it for granted and forget why it matters, so I'm creating a list as reminders that i can read frequently. 

For me, these are the core ones i think of a lot:

• it trains the awareness muscle
• it trains the skill of detecting self-deception
• it trains the skill of "going meta" which is key for emotional regulation, resilience, perspective taking, detecting impulse, mind mastery, and a million other thing
• it allows and strengthens creative insight and clarity

Edited 10 hours ago by YIDIRYIDIR

[Cred]

Sitting allows for independence from the strive for dual existence which is passion.

This Liberation arises without the requirement of magic, which is the spanning of stable space through complementarity, which is the synthesis of itself with its opposite, with which it is in dissonance with.

Further, it allows for the experience of non-dual infinity in the unification with God.

When you leave out the middle part, you've got your one-liner.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Training gratitude for the present moment and general zest for life

[YIDIRYIDIR]

19 minutes ago, Cred said:

Sitting allows for independence from the strive for dual existence which is passion.

This Liberation arises without the requirement of magic, which is the spanning of stable space through complementarity, which is the synthesis of itself with its opposite, with which it is in dissonance with.

Further, it allows for the experience of non-dual infinity in the unification with God.

When you leave out the middle part, you've got your one-liner.

How deep can you explain?
Cred: Yes.

seriously though, this is what I was looking for but didn't know i was. amazing insight, I will be thinking about this for a while
 

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@NewKidOnTheBlock True and very important.
 before, I tend to fill every still moment with some sort of stimulation, thinking doing nothing is painful. but now I'm learning and trying to be better at enjoy stillness. or "raw-dogging boredom" as genz call it

[gettoefl]

Meditation is to hang out with the unconditioned me and post-meditation bring that forgiving presence and healed perception to all I encounter.

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@gettoefl nice framing 

 

[Human Mint]

Creates more space for enjoying life at its fullest.

[YIDIRYIDIR]

14 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

Creates more space for enjoying life at its fullest.

this should be number 0 on the list. 

 

[Cred]

6 minutes ago, Human Mint said:

Creates more space for enjoying life at its fullest.

This is great, but I would like to add some nuance.

• Duality is what creates space.
• Partnership is that duality which stabilizes space.
• Meditation is what empties space.
• Finally, a stable and empty space is that which allows for harmony, authenticity, flourishing, and therefore fullness to occur.

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@Cred what do you mean by "space" in this context?

[Cred]

27 minutes ago, YIDIRYIDIR said:

@Cred what do you mean by "space" in this context?

With space I mean a metaphysical principle that is only possible with duality which includes the physicalist understanding of spacetime. I know this sounds like a circular definition, which it is since the unity duality dichotomy is at the end illusionary and non-separated from the absolute.

In my ontological cosmology, everything that is not pure unity, which is singularity is duality. All of reality is well defined with the crystal of eternity and the one-fragment.

I'm planning to post much more in the future.

I have already pre-written a very long post in the same style of writing as my first reply in this thread that is called: "An Ontology of Hell: The Abyss, the Maw and the Void".

The reason why my style of writing has changed is because I have started to use the dictation function from Apple. It seems my brain is better at producing speech than at producing words so I will utilize this more in the future. In that way I think I have a very similar brain structure as Jordan Peterson whose lectures were always better and deeper than his writing if I remember correctly.

Edited 5 hours ago by Cred

[YIDIRYIDIR]

@Cred I kinda get it but I don't want to assume, could you lower the level of abstraction? like you are talking to a kid (because i kinda am lol) 

[Cred]

@YIDIRYIDIR  the reason you don't understand what I mean by duality is because I explained neither the crystal nor the fragment. The problem is that in my model, duality is defined through these symbols and their relationship to direct being.

I have written about the crystal and the fragment here

but I have since polished the concept and managed to reduce the eight principles in the post down to three plus two. These three are sequentiality, simultaneity and interactivity (sensitivity). The other two are unity and duality, with the physical three dimensional space being some kind of "pure" form of duality. I think. It's a work in progress.

You see, there's still a lot of polishing to do. Unfortunately neither the fragment nor the crystal is explained in the post "An ontology of hell [...]"

Edited 5 hours ago by Cred

[Carl-Richard]

Roughly speaking (it's a bit more complicated than that), the state that meditation puts you in is the state where all work is done (the opponent to the Default Mode Network or DMN is often called the "Tasking Network", TN; meditation decreases DMN and increases TN).

Edited 4 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Oppositionless]

Zen answer : there are no benefits to meditation , that's why you should do it 😂

my answer : meditation reveals the true self. Not just the nondual self but literally your authentic self.

[Carl-Richard]

10 minutes ago, Oppositionless said:

meditation reveals the true self. Not just the nondual self but literally your authentic self.

The self independent of shame and other externally oriented states (shame, guilt, embarrassment happens in the DMN).

Edited 4 hours ago by Carl-Richard

[Oppositionless]

5 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

The self independent of shame and other externally oriented states (shame, guilt, embarrassment happens in the DMN).

[Cred]

3 hours ago, Cred said:

This is great, but I would like to add some nuance.

• Duality is what creates space.
• Partnership is that duality which stabilizes space.
• Meditation is what empties space.
• Finally, a stable and empty space is that which allows for harmony, authenticity, flourishing, and therefore fullness to occur.

@Carl-Richard I must say you're a very inspiring force for me. 

The way you (a bit dismissively) described my approach by saying that I interpret the DSM-5 concepts as metaphysical principles inspired me to double down on that idea.

The way I tried to describe narcissism today was to postulate that the self is the space that is created by the relationship between the true self and the self image, with that space being unstable in a personality disorder.

When I had this thought, it made sense in my head, but it was in someway unsatisfying for me to just pull this concept of the self image out of my ass to be able to explain personality disorder.

It seems to me now that the default mode network seems to be the mechanism behind the self image, while the tasking network might relate to set true self.

Of course, this is just a rough connection that I saw in your description of the pair which is itself rough as you said. However, I think it is an interesting thought to think about and share.