Am I retarded for needing meditation to function?

[EdgeGod900]

I feel like in order for me to be on par in work productivity/performance as my co-workers, I need to meditate for atleast 1 hour a day. It makes me wonder whether my brain is retarded for me to need meditation to have the awareness to function in daily life. 

Ultimately I'm still figuring out an answer, but what do the "human users" in this forum think about this? Does a degenerate mind, like mine, need daily meditation in order for it to function normally?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 27 by EdgeGod900

[James123]

@EdgeGod900 do you overthink at work?

[Yimpa]

 

[EdgeGod900]

@James123 Sometimes. But still, does requiring either meditation or cocaine to function mean that I'm retarded?

[emil1234]

7 minutes ago, EdgeGod900 said:

@James123 Sometimes. But still, does requiring either meditation or cocaine to function mean that I'm retarded?

that does sound like retardation

[Princess Arabia]

They are simply tools. Make no mistake, no different than alcohol, video games, excessive shopping, drugs, food, sex, everything human's do to distract. We all distract. All our minds are degenerate and neurotic. You just think you're different because the things you do to distract may seem extreme and not comfortable to you. You judge them as weaknesses and whatever else you say about them. We're all looking for ways to cope with the mind's insanity. You bully yourself and call yourself a degenerate and a retard; but if you didn't, you wouldn't see what you're doing as a problem. Not saying the cocaine isn't, but you would engage to function the same way someone drinking coffee would. Some tools are more destructive than some. You meditate to quiet the mind then take the coke to revive it. That's the insanity and turbulence the mind carries on with. Allow the mind to be and it will stay calmer.

Edited November 27 by Princess Arabia

[Schizophonia]

See it like that : It’s better than needing adderall 

[James123]

5 hours ago, EdgeGod900 said:

@James123 Sometimes. But still, does requiring either meditation or cocaine to function mean that I'm retarded?

You are good brother. Just meditate longer. 

[tuku747]

The mind of a person who has not delved very deeply into philosophy is not yet very complex and is naturally meditating. People who think often need to meditate more often until meditation is the natural state of mind once again.

[Sugarcoat]

@tuku747 Why you say brains don’t exist?

[Schizophonia]

15 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

@tuku747 Why you say brains don’t exist?

solipsism 

[Schizophonia]

On 27/11/2024 at 3:53 PM, Princess Arabia said:

They are simply tools. Make no mistake, no different than alcohol, video games, excessive shopping, drugs, food, sex, everything human's do to distract. We all distract. All our minds are degenerate and neurotic. You just think you're different because the things you do to distract may seem extreme and not comfortable to you. You judge them as weaknesses and whatever else you say about them. We're all looking for ways to cope with the mind's insanity. You bully yourself and call yourself a degenerate and a retard; but if you didn't, you wouldn't see what you're doing as a problem. Not saying the cocaine isn't, but you would engage to function the same way someone drinking coffee would. Some tools are more destructive than some. You meditate to quiet the mind then take the coke to revive it. That's the insanity and turbulence the mind carries on with. Allow the mind to be and it will stay calmer.

spot on

[Sugarcoat]

1 hour ago, Schizophonia said:

solipsism 

What has that to do with brains not existing?

[Schizophonia]

48 minutes ago, Sugarcoat said:

What has that to do with brains not existing?

Because it means that what you perceive in the moment is everything that exists.

So there you can see your hands but the rest does not exist, you can imagine slightly that you have a head and more brutally, in a more twisted way by "getting up" and "going" "in front of" a "mirror" "seeing" (imaginating) "your head". Same logic for the brain.

In this paradigm consciousness generates the body, the maya in general, and not the opposite (physicalism); So the maya (the body, therefore the "brain") is not tangible in the absolute, you decide to imagine it so it is not real in the absolute ; It's just a story, the ego.

Edited November 28 by Schizophonia

[Sugarcoat]

16 hours ago, Schizophonia said:

Because it means that what you perceive in the moment is everything that exists.

So there you can see your hands but the rest does not exist, you can imagine slightly that you have a head and more brutally, in a more twisted way by "getting up" and "going" "in front of" a "mirror" "seeing" (imaginating) "your head". Same logic for the brain.

In this paradigm consciousness generates the body, the maya in general, and not the opposite (physicalism); So the maya (the body, therefore the "brain") is not tangible in the absolute, you decide to imagine it so it is not real in the absolute ; It's just a story, the ego.

Ok I see