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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 o
by dbingham 10y ago
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.
- 819238130 10y agoPersons 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!]
- wlamartin 10y ago"I maintain that meditation can have prolonged adverse effects outside the period of actual meditation." Why do you maintain this?
- Koshkin 10y agoSo, basically, meditation is like taking a nap? Then why prefer one over the other?
- edejong 10y agoExercising 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.