this blog is the continuation of a genuine mystical tradition, unless you get in daily contemplative time and abstain to a significant degree from "entertainment" then you are just wasting your time and mine !
...I never have visions. The closest thing I can remember is many years ago I was trying Transcendental Meditation and stopped because I started having all sorts of weird things happen, seeing things that were not there and feeling like I was floating and looking down on myself... I've never had that happen practicing Zazen, not sure what the difference was/is between the two, I cannot remember. Cheers!
personally i couldn't do that for more than 20 seconds and i don't think you could rule out some non-benign changes to the brain default circuitry doing that which is perhaps what happened to you
the problem with zazen is the way it entrains or amplifies well laid neural tracks in the brain, people who do it seem to get damaged more than they were in the first place imo
...I never have visions. The closest thing I can remember is many years ago I was trying Transcendental Meditation and stopped because I started having all sorts of weird things happen, seeing things that were not there and feeling like I was floating and looking down on myself... I've never had that happen practicing Zazen, not sure what the difference was/is between the two, I cannot remember.
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ReplyDeletehmm, not familar with TM but from what i read it involves mentally repeating an meaningless word to yourself
maharashi explaining
personally i couldn't do that for more than 20 seconds and i don't think you could rule out some non-benign changes to the brain default circuitry doing that which is perhaps what happened to you
the problem with zazen is the way it entrains or amplifies well laid neural tracks in the brain, people who do it seem to get damaged more than they were in the first place imo
I cannot afford to become more damaged! ;)
ReplyDeleteYour home looks very nice, you could have one of those places like I read about in Mother Earth News, it looks sort of like that.
So you think Zazen does not calm the mind or solve anything then ehhh? Do tell!
Cheers!
Leo
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