Ten years of trying to meditate

Re:Ten years of trying to meditate by runlaszlorun on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:02PM (#31401172)

Great piece! I’ve had a rambling zen practice for over 20 years and little of it has been the tranquil, peaceful experience that people imply when they colloquially call something ‘zen’. But totally worth it. And as you rightly pointed out, the act of just noticing can be done in motion as well as at rest. Thx for sharing…

Btw, I’m a big fan of Shinzen Young who has a secular/scientific(-ish) approach that combines various world traditions in a hybrid sorta MMA does with martial arts.

https://www.shinzen.org/

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Re:Ten years of trying to meditate by lpcrealmadrid on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:41PM (#31401631)

Love Shinzen! His Outline for Practice was fundamental in me discovering that there are different meditation maps that present different flavors of “progress”/“realization”

https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/AnOutline...

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Re:Ten years of trying to meditate by rippeltippel on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:02PM (#31401866)

Thank you for mentioning Shinzen Young, I didn't know about him and just checked his website. It looks like there's some crossover with Sam Harris' "Waking Up" [1], do you happen to know how they compare?

[1] https://www.wakingup.com/

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Re:Ten years of trying to meditate by feanaro on Monday May 16, 2022 @03:45PM (#31402340)

Another resource that might appeal to the HN type is The Mind Illuminated, by John Yates (a.k.a. Culadasa).

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