It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Please show where you see contradiction.
Originally posted by AthlonSavage
reply to post by Itisnowagain
Please show where you see contradiction.
I perceive your femine energy now it manifests contradictions all the time. I should of seen it earlier.
Originally posted by DrunkYogi
Don't meditate for 2 hrs straight, it's dangerous.
Originally posted by kamebard
Originally posted by DrunkYogi
Don't meditate for 2 hrs straight, it's dangerous.
That depends on many factors.
For the inexperienced non-initiate, this is a a good general suggestion.
However, for those who have extensive meditation experience, or who are under the watchful eye of an inspired teacher, long stretches of meditation can be very beneficial.
Also, those with psychological issues (schizophrenia, MPD, and others) should be evaluated/monitored by their mental health provider before even thinking about attempting meditation - and more than others, should be done under the watchful eye of a teacher.
There are some pretty dark spaces out there, and if one can't make the distinction between this perception of reality and others, things could go south pretty quickly.
Put me in any box you choose.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
The main factor is:
What do you define as meditation?
No one taught me meditation.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by kamebard
Do you believe that thought can be silenced?
Originally posted by AthlonSavage
reply to post by Itisnowagain
Does cloths make a difference to the depth of your mediational state. I mean do ypu find wearing dress as opposed to jeans deepned your relxed mind. Or does cloths have no bearing on dettachment from physical.
Stilling the mind is impossible. One must notice the quiet the mind is floating in. Thoughts are just flickering in the huge space.
Originally posted by AthlonSavage
reply to post by Itisnowagain
Stilling the mind is impossible. One must notice the quiet the mind is floating in. Thoughts are just flickering in the huge space.
what about physical smells in the air, for example are you using certain scents of perfumes to help calm and quieten your mind?
Originally posted by kamebard
At the beginning, anything which makes you uncomfortable or brings your awareness to your physical body can have an impact on your meditation states. Not an impossibility, but the less one has to focus on the physical, the more one can focus on other things.
There is no need to quiet the mind. As i have stated - it is impossible to still the mind.