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 (DIR) Post #Al63TflmITAjJ2MK5g by aiju@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T15:46:20Z
       
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       i think my answer to “should you meditate?” is “probably not, unless you feel drawn to it” but i do think there is a caveat that neurodivergent people are more likely to be the kind of person for whomst it is worth it
       
 (DIR) Post #Al63TgTNgM3BUGl93Q by aiju@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T15:48:14Z
       
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       everything feels kinda empty and pointless? every moment is suffering? somehow nothing ever feels quite right? you feel deeply unhappy but you also struggle to point at exactly what is making you unhappy? you may just be inclined to see samsara for what it is
       
 (DIR) Post #Al63ThEWr3lRqUonXk by aiju@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T15:50:04Z
       
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       and i mean it might still just be a stupid mundane problems, if you have stupid mundane problems (lonely, bad living situation, no fulfilling activities, etc) then go fix those, but you may also just be suffering from a deeper ‘spiritual’ problem and there are established ways for resolving those (definitely not easy, though)
       
 (DIR) Post #Al63Thk4xl09QLZzii by aiju@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T15:54:07Z
       
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       to be clear when i say ‘spiritual’ here i don’t mean spooky metaphysics, there is no need to invoke any gods or demons here. i think for me spiritual roughly means ~taking the contents of your mind seriously. it’s like your own private virtual reality so it’s gonna be a little weird.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al63Tm4mqhwUrjIaYK by aiju@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T16:03:44Z
       
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       the pitch for meditation is like, by default people are horrendously confused about what their own existence and their own minds are like and the main effect of meditation is to clear up that confusion and see things clearly for what they are. and once you see past the confusions a lot of these pains i mentioned earlier just dissolve? it’s a little crazy.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al63TndD4D4VgmPaqW by aiju@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T16:06:54Z
       
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       it would be nice if we could just tell people the correct way of seeing but unfortunately it tends to be impossible to say anything that is understood correctly. every description only seems to make sense once you have seen it for yourself. so yea the only way out is to sit.
       
 (DIR) Post #Al63WyYOujHMQug2CW by Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
       2024-08-18T16:19:21.706692Z
       
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       @aiju how?
       
 (DIR) Post #Al64qbSMbCbiXlmAvw by aiju@chaos.social
       2024-08-18T16:28:30Z
       
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       @Hyolobrika the short answer is “just sit” ^^
       
 (DIR) Post #Al64qcEZhxAixIKg52 by Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
       2024-08-18T16:34:05.255761Z
       
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       @aiju tried that, not helping