interesting insight I had today.

[SageModeAustin]

I just finished my 25 minutes meditation session and at the end of it I was shocked. The timer went off way too soon, I thought I mistakenly put it for 5 minutes on accident, but nope it was 25. 

I noticed that this meditation session, I didn't resist any thought at all.

Evil thoughts came up of dead babies, friend trying to kill me with a knife, people thinking I'm gay, any deep fear I had within me, anything to try to trigger me and I just let it all come through and the time went by SO FAST. 

No resistance = flow state.

Edited October 25, 2018 by SageModeAustin

[Joseph Maynor]

The thoughts that come up are crazy.  I always get this one after almost every thought.  "What do I think about that?"  So, I'll have some thought, and then I'll get that neurotic nagging second thought -- "what do I think about that?"  It just pops up.  And it can lure me into losing myself in thought.  Now I notice it and I don't comply with it.  I realize it's the Devil.  The Devil is the lure into Maya, the lure into the illusion of Thought in this instance.  The Devil is constantly trying to lure me into Thought.  But see, I notice it now, and I can put the fire out when it's small just by not complying.  But see, to not comply you have to notice it and notice that it's a lure into birds in the bush a.k.a. forgetting about the present bird in hand and getting lost in all kinds of basically daydreams.

Edited October 25, 2018 by Joseph Maynor

[SageModeAustin]

@Joseph Maynor Yep!

[Shin]

Time is relative ?

[Charlotte]

2 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

then I'll get that neurotic nagging second thought -- "what do I think about that?" 

So do I Joseph ?

[Bluff]

I never got the point of setting a timer.. can you explain?

[SageModeAustin]

@Bluff so you can keep track of how long you've meditated?

[kieranperez]

11 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

"What do I think about that?" 

Man if you develop supreme concentration on that question (like you would for a koan), that can really take you deep. That’s why I feel concentration practice is so important in the early years of meditation because of how easy it is to slip into other questions. Contemplative meditation on a question requires such supreme concentration to keep the devil from seducing the mind into other questions just for the sake of distraction. Obviously this is all metaphorical.