Yes scant and born of conventional thought. You talk like a guy who just finished reading a pop-psychology book on meditation.
And your retort consists of “well no kidding” (so we agree, right?) and “it isn’t a grand cosmic revelation” (or “deep philosophical mystery”) (which I didn’t say at all).
Look, if your reality consists of what you see, circumscribed by what you don’t see, and attention draws that line, then yes, I’d say that “axis of reality” characterizes that nicely.
And if your attention is bound by, say, a thousand habits, and meditation removes those habits (temporarily, messily, in the case of drugs), replacing them with intelligent action (a flying-like freedom, one might say), then yes, “wings” fits nicely too.
As for the difference between drugs and meditation. You are splitting hairs. I’d call the one splashing on the shore and the other going for a swim. Same ocean tho.
But you think I’m overstating it and my metaphors are overblown, well, that’s just your opinion and there is a strong possibility that our experiences simply differ.
I talk like a guy who read a pop psychology book? That’s very judgmental. I did my best to articulate my thoughts and you arrogantly claim your own response is better, even though the court of public opinion regards my explanation as preferable.
You claim meditation is helpful for focusing attention, but this reply is the first which isnt riddled with grammatical or structural errors. You dont need flowery language to describe your sensations.
As for the dichotomy between drugs and meditation, it all depends what metric you’re evaluating. The ones aforementioned in my comment (which you’ve reduced to ‘getting high’) are the metrics I’ve used, but doesn’t encompass the entire spectrum of drug use. There are ways to compare them, and way they’re different - it’s a very narrow perspective to simply claim that one is just a more extreme version, or that the other is ‘better’.
Yes scant and born of conventional thought. You talk like a guy who just finished reading a pop-psychology book on meditation.
And your retort consists of “well no kidding” (so we agree, right?) and “it isn’t a grand cosmic revelation” (or “deep philosophical mystery”) (which I didn’t say at all).
Look, if your reality consists of what you see, circumscribed by what you don’t see, and attention draws that line, then yes, I’d say that “axis of reality” characterizes that nicely.
And if your attention is bound by, say, a thousand habits, and meditation removes those habits (temporarily, messily, in the case of drugs), replacing them with intelligent action (a flying-like freedom, one might say), then yes, “wings” fits nicely too.
As for the difference between drugs and meditation. You are splitting hairs. I’d call the one splashing on the shore and the other going for a swim. Same ocean tho.
But you think I’m overstating it and my metaphors are overblown, well, that’s just your opinion and there is a strong possibility that our experiences simply differ.
I talk like a guy who read a pop psychology book? That’s very judgmental. I did my best to articulate my thoughts and you arrogantly claim your own response is better, even though the court of public opinion regards my explanation as preferable.
You claim meditation is helpful for focusing attention, but this reply is the first which isnt riddled with grammatical or structural errors. You dont need flowery language to describe your sensations.
As for the dichotomy between drugs and meditation, it all depends what metric you’re evaluating. The ones aforementioned in my comment (which you’ve reduced to ‘getting high’) are the metrics I’ve used, but doesn’t encompass the entire spectrum of drug use. There are ways to compare them, and way they’re different - it’s a very narrow perspective to simply claim that one is just a more extreme version, or that the other is ‘better’.