Does Ideal meditaiton exist?

[Gabriel Joy]

On 22/12/2021 at 9:50 PM, Yarco said:

Do Nothing

Everything else is just training wheels to eventually get you to Do Nothing

 

On 22/12/2021 at 6:48 PM, Ulax said:

@Gabriel Joy I really think 'Do-Nothing' Meditation blows all the others out of the water, re beginner gains.

I'll keep this in mind, thank you for responding!

[Nahm]

Ideals are thought activity, conditions held. which settle in meditation. That’s the beauty of it. Even ideals can go. 

[snowyowl]

Meditation which is being done, and from which we are learning, is ideal.

Even if it's the 'wrong' technique for us, the insight that it is wrong, and why it's wrong, is development. We get to know ourselves better. We can choose ourselves a better technique next time. That's ideal. 

Edited December 28, 2021 by snowyowl

[snowyowl]

If you go to a teacher, they usually start you on a vanilla technique like mindfulness of breathing, Om mantra, or body scan etc. You don't know what you want, because that's why you're going to the teacher. The teacher doesn't know you yet, so they give you vanilla until there's some experience to learn from, so the choice of meditation is based on the real person, and their needs at that time. Hopefully. Depends how good the teacher is, and how open the student is. It goes in iterations, don't worry about doing an unideal technique. Better that than spend too much time reading and not enough practicing  

Edited December 28, 2021 by snowyowl

[Raze]

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