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
You know how your brain is an asshole that generates thoughts without the consent of you the person?
Meditation is basically just recognizing the distinction between you and your brain, and practicing feeling not-responsible for the random thoughts drifting in and out. Trying to get better at letting thoughts pass, or acting on them, either way the point is you practice choosing which one you want to do.