Do you meditate? If so, how?

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 3:58 pm

I had a teacher that occasionally had us meditate if we wanted too, it was interesting, though I dozed off rather quickly (I became perhaps...too relaxed?)

Frankly now and days all the meditation I get is when I'm taking a dump on the toilet. How come it's always on the toilet where you seem to get your best ideas or resolved your worst delemas?

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 4:55 pm

Jebadia wrote:Frankly now and days all the meditation I get is when I'm taking a dump on the toilet. How come it's always on the toilet where you seem to get your best ideas or resolved your worst delemas?

That's crazy man, I always feel a sense of deep relaxation and inner peace when taking a dump. Also when I walk into the bathroom at work.
Insane.

It'd be funnier if I wasn't kidding.

I should meditate more often. The only real meditation I've done is various OBE attempts. Other than that, the time I get away from work, school, and the damn internet, which is very rare, is usually either spent reading or contemplating. It seems to me contemplation is the next step up from regular waking state interchange of idea and absorption of ideas. Above contemplation is meditation. Contemplation would be sorting out and processing of certain higher concepts, and I suppose perfect meditation would come when all to be contemplated is done, sorted, gone over, and the mind is clear.
If I got out more, I'd have time to do stuff like that.

Until then though masturbation works.

Toecutter · Post by **Toecutter** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:54 pm

The closest thing that comes to meditation for me is driving. No matter how angry I am, or how much my sisters say I have road rage (which is bullshit, because they're hypersensitive pansies), my driving style never changes. I always follow the speed limit, use my signals correctly, and give enough room for drivers in front of me (at least when they can drive, and not swerve or do 20 mph under the limit).

Like meditation, when I'm in my car, I just let things happen, and think on my feet. All the planning for navigation is a plus, especially when delivering pizza, but if you know the local streets as well as I do, you just don't have to think about it. Your mind can wander, but you can focus.

I ride motorcycles exactly the same way, and have yet to encounter a situation I can't handle.

Target practice is another way to relieve stress. I've heard from a co-worker or two that plinking with handguns is far more stress-relieving than using rifles or shotguns, because the handgun is braced equally with both hands, centered in front of you, rather than braced to the right or left side (depending if you're right or left-handed, respectively).

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:07 pm

Your driving sounds like me playing a good game of pk-on-da-loose.

a good intense game of Rise of Nations or any other game usually settles me down as well.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:26 pm

I am a master of the Zen of Lazy.

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:41 pm

A lot of times I'll draw to calm me down. Often my art class wasn't until after lunch, and the morning classes were all my tough ones. So when I finally make it to 4th and 5th period I'd just draw at random (best not to have an idea fix on what your drawing or you'll become frustrated on how it's supposed to be). I'd just throw in some random lines and add on until something takes shape. I made many good mecha pictures that way...I wish I could scan them in and put em up on my dev.art site, but they're on big sheets and matte board.