I'm trying to go to sleep so I'll keep this short, but HOW do you actually learn to meditate? I hear all this talk of it in left wing spaces, I know Breht from RevLeft is biiiig on it and some other non leftists I follow also advocate for it as a method of consciousness exploration so I've been thinking I should start doing something like it.

Are there good resources out there for this that aren't neolib corporate happiness woo? I've been freaking the fuck out lately about how we all gonn' die and climate change and The Fash (which must be bashed, or so I've been told) and I gotta try....something to get me to chill the fuck out. I may genuinely start a psychiatric medication soon but I'm really trying to get my life back on the rails, I really found a lot of the last two years traumatic for a variety of reasons so I'm trying to integrate additional healthy habits as well as getting back onto old ones that fell off

Also bonus points for lectures/podcasts on Eastern philosophy in general

  • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    It's always stuck with me hearing Alan Watts one time say "if you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate"

    Dan Harris also wrote a book called Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics where the main thrust is that you sit down, focus on your breath, notice that your mind has wandered, and bring it back to your breath. Every time you do that cycle it's like a bicep curl for your brain. Then everybody he talks to on tour goes "that's dumb for reason X, Y, and Z" and then he responds "no it's not dumb, you're dumb." And then he's got a whole book