dialogue about meditation
great_dame -I tried to tackle sub and obj once...lead me in painful circles...i need a brain transplant.
Those buddhists were shutting down parts of their brain that censored where they ended and the ouside world, began, hence feeling "connected". If shutting down is enlightment, then screw that.
enlightentainer -ah...my understanding of buddhism seems different...not shutting down...but opening up...going beyond subject and object by transcending and including them...connection with the universe not shutting it out...i'd like to hear more of your thoughts about this...
great_dame -Well! Seeing as how I'm just full of thoughts...
I was briefly relating to an article I read..where a monk pulled a rope to indicate that state of meditation...and they were all hooked up to wires and stuff...apparently, on the other side in the lab, it showed parts of the brain actually shut down? I thought that was interesting.
I actually have a little alter of my own...and read about meditation...but I find it so hard, not to..THINK. It's more a theraputic session, for me...so hard, to relax...like, the pressure! To...meditate. Sigh, So hard to explain...
I got the whole enviornment, the position, the breathing...but my thoughts take off and race. I dont think I'm cut out for meditation.
enlightentainer -but you are aware of "racing thoughts"...that is the first step...a long process...i wrote quite a bit about what happens to the brain during meditation in my thesis...the best i can explain with my knowledge of neuroscience...basically, your mind operates in such a way that neural pathways are formed and become "rigid" as they process reality...meditation is a form of resetting, in a way, the brain...so that you not only become aware of the plasticity of reality and are able to choose new pathways or values or worldviews...no longer fixed in a dualistic but transcending and including them...
Those buddhists were shutting down parts of their brain that censored where they ended and the ouside world, began, hence feeling "connected". If shutting down is enlightment, then screw that.
enlightentainer -ah...my understanding of buddhism seems different...not shutting down...but opening up...going beyond subject and object by transcending and including them...connection with the universe not shutting it out...i'd like to hear more of your thoughts about this...
great_dame -Well! Seeing as how I'm just full of thoughts...
I was briefly relating to an article I read..where a monk pulled a rope to indicate that state of meditation...and they were all hooked up to wires and stuff...apparently, on the other side in the lab, it showed parts of the brain actually shut down? I thought that was interesting.
I actually have a little alter of my own...and read about meditation...but I find it so hard, not to..THINK. It's more a theraputic session, for me...so hard, to relax...like, the pressure! To...meditate. Sigh, So hard to explain...
I got the whole enviornment, the position, the breathing...but my thoughts take off and race. I dont think I'm cut out for meditation.
enlightentainer -but you are aware of "racing thoughts"...that is the first step...a long process...i wrote quite a bit about what happens to the brain during meditation in my thesis...the best i can explain with my knowledge of neuroscience...basically, your mind operates in such a way that neural pathways are formed and become "rigid" as they process reality...meditation is a form of resetting, in a way, the brain...so that you not only become aware of the plasticity of reality and are able to choose new pathways or values or worldviews...no longer fixed in a dualistic but transcending and including them...