Natural Meditation from "Awake It's Your Turn" by Angelo DiLullo - Discussion
Sound good though still too method heavy for my personal liking.
I define my practice literally as eg. "improve eyesight" which practice is like described. I always practice medtiation like this - only defining loss function and rest is all dynamic and managed by mind including review to check how it was all done and this review is part of main consciousness by design - so has to also be streamed to the kind of mind which can describe it at will.
This is what I do not see clearly defined - loss function.
Of course if I wanted to get what experience you have in mind for this practice I could make it loss function and have my mind prepare it for me. No turning off electronic devices needed ;)
BTW. I understand defining clear loss function as "Right Resolve". Having resolve doesn't make any sense other than it being already loss function. My mind doesn't care for anything which could be called resolve. Any attempt to feel like I have resolve feels like doing it wrong as it only distract mind from doing everything from lowering loss function. Making having anything that feels like having right resolve makes it the loss function and having experience of resolve doesn't help bring things to fruition. It helps nothing at all.
In the same vein having any practice is also a distraction. I cannot put 100% effort in to reducing loss function if I waste my energy on doing method right. If there is anything for anyone to do if there is clear loss function it will be done the moment it have to be done.
Of course having proper review of what has been done is the Right Mindfulness. It is important to have good communication with clear streams of what is being done because connected system self improves. Not having mindfulness is like having no sense. One can manage well without some senses but at times they do become useful or even essential. For crude example if there was a place with large quantities of uranium ore - we usually do not need to sense ionizing radiation but if we could sense it then we would not go anywhere near said place. Likewise having mindful mind we choose where we go and where we do not go being better informed so also more wisely.
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Anyways, I if read the vibe of this topic right - it being loose topic to throw simple insights at people then I think my basic SE insights won't be read as anything than just review. I feel at times books or even just normal people do not mentione these topics often enough. Similarly to your meditation pointers which despite I said they are method heavy I totally agree with them. In fact the tone didn't at all feel method heavy and I do not think it was the intention to focus on the "how you do it" points as much as to indicate general direction. Still good opportunity to throw some dharma at people
Have nice meditation,
Ni
I define my practice literally as eg. "improve eyesight" which practice is like described. I always practice medtiation like this - only defining loss function and rest is all dynamic and managed by mind including review to check how it was all done and this review is part of main consciousness by design - so has to also be streamed to the kind of mind which can describe it at will.
This is what I do not see clearly defined - loss function.
Of course if I wanted to get what experience you have in mind for this practice I could make it loss function and have my mind prepare it for me. No turning off electronic devices needed ;)
BTW. I understand defining clear loss function as "Right Resolve". Having resolve doesn't make any sense other than it being already loss function. My mind doesn't care for anything which could be called resolve. Any attempt to feel like I have resolve feels like doing it wrong as it only distract mind from doing everything from lowering loss function. Making having anything that feels like having right resolve makes it the loss function and having experience of resolve doesn't help bring things to fruition. It helps nothing at all.
In the same vein having any practice is also a distraction. I cannot put 100% effort in to reducing loss function if I waste my energy on doing method right. If there is anything for anyone to do if there is clear loss function it will be done the moment it have to be done.
Of course having proper review of what has been done is the Right Mindfulness. It is important to have good communication with clear streams of what is being done because connected system self improves. Not having mindfulness is like having no sense. One can manage well without some senses but at times they do become useful or even essential. For crude example if there was a place with large quantities of uranium ore - we usually do not need to sense ionizing radiation but if we could sense it then we would not go anywhere near said place. Likewise having mindful mind we choose where we go and where we do not go being better informed so also more wisely.
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Anyways, I if read the vibe of this topic right - it being loose topic to throw simple insights at people then I think my basic SE insights won't be read as anything than just review. I feel at times books or even just normal people do not mentione these topics often enough. Similarly to your meditation pointers which despite I said they are method heavy I totally agree with them. In fact the tone didn't at all feel method heavy and I do not think it was the intention to focus on the "how you do it" points as much as to indicate general direction. Still good opportunity to throw some dharma at people
Have nice meditation,
Ni
