Re:Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel ...
by dbingham on Saturday October 08, 2016 @11:44AM
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If you're using meditation hoping to solve problems while your meditating, then you're doing it wrong. Meditation is like sleep or taking a rest day in a work out regimen. It's all about clearing your mind of noise so that when you finish and get back to the Feinman process then you're head is a little clearer and it's easier to focus.
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Re:Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel ...
by 819238130 on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:23PM
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Persons are different. If someone is balanced, already introverted and has no trouble living in the moment and being happy just breathing and moving then I maintain that meditation can have prolonged adverse effects outside the period of actual meditation.
If another person is extroverted, perhaps even to the point of being hyperactive, then meditation (as you described it) may help.
In general I see very little connection though between meditation and intellectual output. Many famous people who are known for taking to Buddhism did so after accomplishing their major works.
I also doubt that meditation, even if it leads to a rested mind, helps focusing in noisy environments.
[same person as above -- sorry dang!]
Re:Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel ...
by wlamartin on Saturday October 08, 2016 @12:57PM
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"I maintain that meditation can have prolonged adverse effects outside the period of actual meditation."
Why do you maintain this?
Re:Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel ...
by edejong on Saturday October 08, 2016 @03:26PM
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Exercising equanimity is a possible state while meditating. However, apart from equanimity, most Zen Buddhist meditations involve knowing and exercising the mind in different ways, such as applying (right) concentration and disentangling thought processes.