Shinzen

29 Aug 2024 - 06 Feb 2025
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    • His book The Science of Enlightenment was recommended to me by Meaningness, but something about it was offputting – he is in fact trying to mix science and spirituality, but I guess I prefer them separate, my science-nerd brain and my meditation brain are too different. Eg – I am very taken with the paradoxical quality of meditation, that it is purposeless, that one should not have "gaining ideas", that you are already enlightened. Maybe that's all bullshit though? Shinzen's theory is much more straightforward: meditation is pracrice in being focused, a learnable skill which is of great value in life, the ultimate metaskill.