Do you meditate?
If so, what do you get out of it and what was your greatest experience when doing it?
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Usually once a day for an hour, Vipassana, as taught by Syadaw U Janaka.
- peace
- better understanding of how my body functions
- deeper observation and pattern recognition
- directly understanding the sequence: perception, feeling, interpretation, emotion
- seeing the link between volition and action
- developing a degree of equanimity towards pain and pleasure, both pass,
- seeing that the ego is just a construct, necessary for functioning in this conditional world, but a potential danger or trap if one identifies with it, eg toxic shame, pride, arrogance, anger
- greater compassion and empathy for others by fully experiencing one's own pain without evasion, and learning from it
- applying one's full attention to what ever the task at hand might be.
- ever so slowly creeping towards maturity
- emnity dissappears, friendships develop
- peace
- better understanding of how my body functions
- deeper observation and pattern recognition
- directly understanding the sequence: perception, feeling, interpretation, emotion
- seeing the link between volition and action
- developing a degree of equanimity towards pain and pleasure, both pass,
- seeing that the ego is just a construct, necessary for functioning in this conditional world, but a potential danger or trap if one identifies with it, eg toxic shame, pride, arrogance, anger
- greater compassion and empathy for others by fully experiencing one's own pain without evasion, and learning from it
- applying one's full attention to what ever the task at hand might be.
- ever so slowly creeping towards maturity
- emnity dissappears, friendships develop