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  • Even when learning to play a instrument you get feedback. When you twang the strings with your inexpert fingers and make a sound. That’s a huge source of guidance.

    In meditation that feedback is key. A dozen feelings and effects. You experiment. You feel your way through the darkness.

    Without that you are guided by … what?


  • No it isn’t. It’s like saying if you don’t feel anything at all then you just stop lifting weights the way you’re doing it. A strain in your muscles. A little sweat. A little worn out. Anything.

    And if you don’t feel anything, then maybe change your routine. Increase your reps. Increase your weight.

    Because otherwise, what exactly are you doing? Just banging out some formula and hoping for the best? Hoping the happy story that your teacher told you someday comes true? That’s dumb.

    The results are the guide. You feel your way along with that feedback.








  • Another thing.

    One of the private universes went bad. So they locked the door. A deeply scary idea. A sealed cellular automaton based universe. Perfectly deterministic therefore ultimately incapable of escaping its history. Perfectly sealed therefore incapable of salvation from the outside. And once the gate is lost, perfectly lost forever.

    It’s similar to the Solipsistic Nation guy. Trapped in a personal universe where he’s enjoying climbing a skyscraper forever. His memory automatically edited so he doesn’t get bored

    I think about that a bit. It’s got a deep scariness. nightmareish





  • Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafeOPtoAutism@lemmy.worldAutism and meditation?
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    … results of meditation are never immediate or even obvious, just over time, if one persists, things get a little easier.

    Speak for yourself.

    In fact, a classic warning is to beware of getting carried away by the bliss/high that commonly arrives.

    So I gotta say. If it ain’t getting you high, or producing even a little bit of noticeable effect, then you would do well to experiment with other techniques.