I was introduced to it by a few people and books and varous stuff that I was into at the time. Experimented a lot. Got a handle on it. Started with concentration meditation.
After 6 years of that I found the other technique (we basically have 2). Shikantaza.
Used together it’s very potent. A bit too potent and trippy for me actually. After a few years wrestling with that I dropped the concentration.
Now I just do Shikantaza.
Been banging on it for about 30 years.
At my house we have a bigass bowl of oatmeal, usually with prunes, every morning.
No arguing.
It’ll go away when you have a billion dollars.
Or not.
Meditation. It’s a superpower
Ok that’s a good point. You see the conforming chorus but you don’t see that every member is censoring himself.
That’s refreshingly reasonable.
I’m mixed on that. How about you?
I agree and I agree
Yes, that sounds like how I’m thinking too
Maybe nobody should be in charge. Just a federation of factions. I guess that’s Lemmy.
And yet censorship is immensely popular. We all prefer that the spam and troll be silenced. We all downvote the obnoxious fools. We all think moderation is necessary.
We all think that there needs to be some control there, right?
You are a diplomat as well as a poet
No really, drugs is. Think a bit.
Think drugs broadly. The whole class of getting high vision alterers.
Religion stands on the experiences of practicioners of that stuff. From shrooming shamans to meditating monks.
From the perspective of the majority, yes it does.
I’m thinking that maybe hysteria is the normal state of the masses. Or maybe its sanity is just very fragile. And social media is a rough place.
It’s an idea I’ve considered too. And I’ve heard it from a few people and it isn’t too far out. Surely somebody has done a variety of Lemmy or that other thing.
Well central information control is out. And a democratic approach means putting the mon in charge, which is bad for a couple reasons.
I’m thinking that an overarching control is to be avoided. There is no good version of that. Control on the small scale. Individuals and small groups maybe. And keep the large scale uncontrolled and wild.
Yes, I’m familiar. But I’m speaking for the majority here. I think that the majority prefers agreement and crushes dissent.
I mean look at social media. Look at how the majority behaves.
It’s a hive dictator. It isn’t intelligent.
I think that the majority prefers agreement and crushes dissent. The majority might be an organic dictator. Like an anthill.
As far as I can tell Muse has only one good song (Take a bow). And even that is a bit cheesy.