#mind >A man who has the ability to commune with himself does not feel the slightest need for anyone else’s conversation... ~ [[Cicero]] [[Krishnamurti]] says meditation is about self-awareness, understanding what is happening within, noticing every thoughts, emotions. **IT IS NOT ABOUT SITTING AND FOCUSING ON YOUR FINGER LIKE EVERYONE DOES.** >We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use. > ~ [[Lao Tze]] **Meditation is either data processing**, i.e. digesting your thoughts, either "white space". Meditation doesn't have to be done like Buddhists does, i.e. Vipassana meditation, it's a lifestyle, **meditative life**, look in the street, at any white space, waiting in the train etc. people have this urge to fill their head with garbage with their phone. >All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone > ~ [[Pascal]] From the perspective of evolution, the amount of data human beings receive on a daily basis nowadays is much greater than in the past. **If you absorb all this data, it will destroy your intellectual capacity.** Meditation is brain food [[Fasting]]. Less thoughts rather than more [[Via Negativa]]. >It is the mind which is tranquil and free from care which can roam through all the stages of its life: the minds of the preoccupied, as if harnessed in a yoke, cannot turn round and look behind them. > ~ [[Seneca]] Our most creative inventions, such as in video games, music, poetry, or any psychedelic state can be achieved through meditation, everything we see happens in our head and you can create it yourself. [[Plato's allegory]], [[Jed McKenna]]