This post has something meaningful to say, but I lack respect for the circumstances in which you try to peddle it. Mentioning multiple times that you’re playing the same status game with your substack/twitter “inb4”s criticism, but doesn’t resolve the hypocrisy.
It also seems like your negative affinity towards these people and their crowd is affecting your judgement. For example, it’s probably not great advice to tell people to stop worrying about their health or meditating, even if Isaac Newton didn’t do it.
Another point worth mentioning: Isaac Newton allegedly had the ability to focus on his work for entire consecutivedays at a time. This is highly unusual. The only non-chemical intervention I’ve ever heard of that can take a normal human mind to that ability is meditation. Though most people aren’t willing to take their meditation practice to the level of intensity that does that, with proper instruction, it may have a more than marginal effect on prolonged concentration.
Strongly upvoted, but is meditation actually useful? There seem to be a lot of people hoping for benefits, but rather fewer who have experienced them. Total agreement on the rest.
Using it to do neural annealing was definitely the biggest boost.
Other than that, the step where I shifted the focus from “let’s try to do well in formal practice” to “let’s focus primarily on integrating it into life (mostly focused on equanimity).
That’s not a minor exception. Also , you are assuming a framework where terminal values are fixed and subjective. That allows you to mathematically solve puzzles, but is not known to be true.
ETA would you take a pill that gave the objectively true values?
This post has something meaningful to say, but I lack respect for the circumstances in which you try to peddle it. Mentioning multiple times that you’re playing the same status game with your substack/twitter “inb4”s criticism, but doesn’t resolve the hypocrisy.
It also seems like your negative affinity towards these people and their crowd is affecting your judgement. For example, it’s probably not great advice to tell people to stop worrying about their health or meditating, even if Isaac Newton didn’t do it.
Another point worth mentioning: Isaac Newton allegedly had the ability to focus on his work for entire consecutive days at a time. This is highly unusual. The only non-chemical intervention I’ve ever heard of that can take a normal human mind to that ability is meditation. Though most people aren’t willing to take their meditation practice to the level of intensity that does that, with proper instruction, it may have a more than marginal effect on prolonged concentration.
Strongly upvoted, but is meditation actually useful? There seem to be a lot of people hoping for benefits, but rather fewer who have experienced them. Total agreement on the rest.
I think I’ve experienced massive benefits, both in reduced suffering an increased productivity.
Do you have an idea of which part of your meditation journey helped the most with productivity?
Using it to do neural annealing was definitely the biggest boost.
Other than that, the step where I shifted the focus from “let’s try to do well in formal practice” to “let’s focus primarily on integrating it into life (mostly focused on equanimity).
For what? It makes no sense to suppose that instruments value is the only kind
I don’t understand who you’re suggesting has a terminal goal of meditation, except maybe those doing it for religious reasons.
A lot of people who have done a lot of meditation (me included) value mindfulness for its own sake.
That’s not a minor exception. Also , you are assuming a framework where terminal values are fixed and subjective. That allows you to mathematically solve puzzles, but is not known to be true.
ETA would you take a pill that gave the objectively true values?