I mediated an average of 10-15 hours/week for about 10 years, and... it didn't do much for me.
What instead did a lot for me was Zen Practice:
- going to the temple
- going to retreat
- Zen reading
- Dharma talks
- Interview with the Zen Masters
- Working at the Temple
And then, meeting the inflated ego of some - but not all - the Zen characters in low-level leadership.
I still practice Zen, but I do it as a Free-Agent LOL
Recently I realized something, not so much achieving Nirvana, more like a DUH-moment: mediation is practice for mindfulness, and at any point in time, no matter where I am, no matter what I do, I can practice mindfulness. Here, I am doing it right now...
And don't get me started in all the pseudo-meditation practices and "applications".
Good insight. Seems to me people who doubt the usefulness of mindfulness are looking too close. It's obvious, the hard part is staying in that DUH moment, we are built to over-think :)
I mediated an average of 10-15 hours/week for about 10 years, and... it didn't do much for me.
What instead did a lot for me was Zen Practice:
- going to the temple
- going to retreat
- Zen reading
- Dharma talks
- Interview with the Zen Masters
- Working at the Temple
And then, meeting the inflated ego of some - but not all - the Zen characters in low-level leadership.
I still practice Zen, but I do it as a Free-Agent LOL
Recently I realized something, not so much achieving Nirvana, more like a DUH-moment: mediation is practice for mindfulness, and at any point in time, no matter where I am, no matter what I do, I can practice mindfulness. Here, I am doing it right now...
And don't get me started in all the pseudo-meditation practices and "applications".
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