>>6327018It's absolutely crucial for anyone to understand that "meditation" is simply any action that induces and maintains a particular state of consciousness.
Laughing can be a meditation (try laughing for 20 minutes). Worrying can be a meditation. Physical activities like walking can be meditations as well. Spending hours on /pol/ can be a meditation, too.
The insight from that is that far from "meditation" being some new or unusual thing which we must learn to do, we are all already master meditators.
We are all simply doing our "this is who I am" meditation, 24x7. (Most people do this without knowing or choosing it, and instead think they're experiencing an external, universal "reality.")
The revelation and epiphany is that rather than unconsciously choosing the "this is me" meditation (which results in the experience we usually have of being ourselves), we can CHOOSE which meditation to do and which state of consciousness we wish to experience.
It's akin to being a ship on the ocean. Without awareness of how our rudder and sail work we simply drift with life's currents. Learning to choose the meditations we do each day is learning that our ship has a rudder and sail, and taking control of them to guide the ships of our lives where we choose to go.
Bon voyage.
