@actuallyautistic
Do not complain. If you never lived on the street for a while, if you weren't admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a while. If you didn't spend some years living in boarding houses, eating little and badly. If you didn't have a year of your life that you barely remember what happened or what you did and you ate every 3 or 4 days. If you didn't spend 6 or 7 long hours suffering from extreme anxiety attacks before going to the hospital to get an injection. If you didn't spend years of your life without sleeping more than 3 hours a day. If you did not experience dangerous situations because you got involved in affairs and jobs without thinking about the risks. If you didn't travel to other countries in a precarious way because you didn't realize it was dangerous.
That's all part of being bipolar, autistic, and gifted without knowing it, without having a diagnosis for many years of your life. It is part of having tried to be what one cannot be and not being what by nature one cannot help being.
All of these things and many more that I don't like to tell are part of this neurodivergent inner world that gave me a deep major depression when I couldn't take it anymore and from which it took me almost 10 years to recover. Although I can't really talk about recovery because the person I was before that has already died and what I can be now remains.
It's not fun to live like this, it's not funny, cool or an adventure. It's a complete shit life. The only thing that sustained me was that as compensation, nature granted me a high intellectual capacity and great resilience, without which I would not have survived even early childhood.
The wisdom that one accumulates by learning from suffering goes hand in hand with the need for solitude and silence and is the mother of low sociability and a strong awareness of the absurdity of life in general and human life in particular.
Don't get caught up in the alienation that rages in the world. My plans for my future years are to move further and further away from social life. And once I can retire, dedicate myself to what I like for the rest of the trip.
If the world and its herds run in one direction, go the opposite way.
Bei manchen kann intensive Meditation psychische Leiden verursachen. Das überwiegend positive Bild von Meditation führt dazu, dass es für Betroffene schwierig ist, bei Nebenwirkungen gehört zu werden, wie SWR-Recherchen zeigen.
Why do we see very few people from minorities in #meditation circles? Is #zazen a white upper middle class-only activity?
I don’t think so. But because #capitalism makes life so hard for those minorities, they aren’t granted the chance to participate in those meditation sessions, as they have other, more urgent, things to struggle with in the first place.
Therefore, as a monk, vowing to liberate all sentient beings means to offer equal opportunities to everyone to practice #zen and this can’t be achieved under capitalism. Only an #anarchist society, where both #liberty and #equality are guaranteed, can allow that.
The last hiur of the day is slipping by, #FediFam. While we wait for the 11:00 news to show the weather, let's take a moment to feel #gratitude and think of THREE GOOD THINGS™️!
The next intro to Zen Meditation happening with my group is on Jan 13th 2024. It goes from 8:00am to noon (Eastern US time, same as New York).
If anyone is interested, let me know. There's a limit of 20 spots. I don't know how fast they fill up.
There's also an all day meditation event on Jan 27th 2024. From 6am to 8pm. (Same time zone as above.) I plan to attend this one. There is no limit as far as the number of spots go for this one.
Again, let me know if anyone is interested. Note that you don't have to have done an introduction prior to going to the all day event. (Tough, I'd advise talking to me beforehand if you want to avoid surprises. 😂 )
Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion
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I'm going to start offering meditation sessions to neurodivergent folks who may want them. You don't have to be neurodivergent to join, but you need to be okay with us being neurodivergent.
It is going to start next weekend. The sessions are going to be 9-10AM Eastern US time, Saturday and Sunday. (Same as New York.)
I'm listing Zen Buddhism in the hashtags. That's because this is what I know. All my meditation practice has been within Zen. So if someone asks a question, I'll have to rely on what I know. However, this is not going to be some sort of "Zen Sunday School." Everyone is welcome, but do read the page where I explain the details and the section about -isms.
Stories of Transformation and Healing Inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh
32 mindfulness practitioners around the world reflect on encountering the extraordinary teachings of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, who passed away in January 2022, exploring themes of coming home to ourselves, healing from grief and loss, facing fear, and building community and belonging.
Just Meditate! - Meditation Course For Beginners [Lesson 6]
After weeks of practicing a quite active meditation technique you are ready to dive deeper and into the calm and stillness. What will you find there? Find out in our upcoming Just Meditate! Meditation Class. Oct. 12 8pm UTC. Join live here: https://odysee.com/@TMG:5/JM121023:e?r=HeYMierP9k5i4mABpjExQxVMG3kXCYmJ
#Meditation sharpens your #concentraiton and your thinking power. Then piece by piece, your own #subconscious motives and mechanics become clear to you. Your #intuition sharpens. The precision of your #thought increases, and gradually you come to a direct #knowledge of things as they reaally are, without #prejudice and without #illusion .
"The moral of Waldow’s reading is that we should not read the Meditations as an account of what the mind is but as an account of what the mind can do and how we can upraise ourselves not as metaphysicians but in our interactions with the world and others."