My view : meditation is a thing that you do with your awareness.
We have two techniques. The concentration, and the observing while refraining from moving your awareness thing.
Both lead to stillness although via different means.
One shrinks, the other grows.
Gorilla bukake factory?
There's this tape called frog tape. It's quite amazing. Uses powerful science
And gorilla tape can remove your skin
And silicone tape fuses to itself molecularly
Like what? Spit? Poop? Semen?
Glue used to be rare and magical.
We settled for wax or pine sap and we were darn glad to get it.
The Internet also takes every opportunity to elevate women, warranted or not. I suppose it balances out.
I would leave the comments and allow the clash to occur. We just want to talk honestly and openly. We prefer straightforward conflict to your censorial "fostering".
Removing my replies because of "reports" and "because it could be interpreted as hostile" is a bullshit excuse.
Pretending that Rowling isn't a favorite hate-fetish of this mob is bullshit too.
Your feigned obliviousness combined with your willynilly censorship is bullshit.
You like bullshit.
We had shovels in the stone age.
Destroying your thesis is sufficient. For now I will simply let your uncertainty fester.
"thinking about a thing" isn't how you meditate.
See, your conclusion is based upon a false assumption.
Well if X has value then 2X probably has double the value. Does that make sense?
I like your fire.
Have you ever directed your attention at a thing? Or concentrated?
Of course you have. It's a great trick. You might even call it indispensable.
Well imagine if you could take it further.
And imagine if there was another trick.
No politics, remember?
The selective enforcement of rules has gotten out of hand.
Digging holes with a shovel. I'm good at that.
Whittling. Drawing.
Meditation.
Assuming a button that makes you smarter, the only smart move is to press it.
Sit down with your co-workers for a beer and everybody smiles. They even make tv shows about it. But sit down with your co-workers for a little opium and everybody gets their panties in a twist.
Are we being taught to love the panopticon?
It's weird. The simple fact of being watched and told what you can say. And the possibility that what you're saying is being edited and what you're hearing is edited too.
This strikes me as abhorrent. But most of the people here call it necessary, preferable and even desirable.
It is deeply bad that a moderator can remove any post or reply.
Yes, I know, trolls etc. But such action turns any conversation into a bad joke. And anybody who trusts a moderator is a fool.
Find a better way.
If we could network planaria, minds of arbitrary size could be consumed and simulated.
Are they trying to split up Lemmy?
Divide and conquer.
So many people here are ready to fight at the slightest dissent. So ready to censor and ban.
It's unnatural.
Concentration is like a super-lobotomy. It removes the 99% of yourself that is interfering with what's important.
Upvote/Downvote is the first mental skill that infants learn.
What does it feel like when you concentrate?
And stuff related to that. When you pay attention, focus... get so concentrated on something that you get sucked in...
What is that like? Can you describe it?
And in the opposite direction. What is it like to be distracted?
The weather is definitely changing.
8 years ago the spring weather was different. It drizzled almost every day. It was cloudy. Now we have these clear sunny days, big winds and scant rain.
Men who have their balls removed at an early age are 300% more successful.
Bullied or Deceived. If you had to choose, which would you prefer be done to you?
When buying tools, how important is color for you?
I can't resist bright orange plastic.