I am also a big David Lynch fan :)
I have not done TM in any serious way. I basically fumbled around and experimented until it made sense to me. Forging my own path and such.
I did go to a TM thing once a long time ago. They were nice people.
As for pushing positive social waves into the surrounding community, yes, I have some small experience with that. It’s a thing I study and experiment with some.
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As for benefits.
You will start with the concentration meditation because it’s dead easy and just takes a little time and effort. It will make you sharp. Maybe a little too sharp. You’ll like it. You’ll feel powerful. You’ll also become a little bit of a crazy asshole. I guess a monastery provides the environment for taking care of people in this state, but lacking that, try to lead a life with lots of free alone time and little stress.
After you get a handle on that you’ll do the second meditation. The “shikantaza”. But that comes later. It’s much kinder but you need to get a handle on the first one first.
BUT that’s just me. Maybe there’s a better way. There was a teacher named Joko Beck who skipped the concentration meditation and taught only the shik. I dunno. Above all you need to become your own expert. Experiment and explore. There is no substitute.
Thanks. Keep in mind that that’s the rare best-case scenario. My daily best is more like 5 minutes.
Getting my life to where that best-case scenario happens more often is a big deal for me. I work on that.
I don’t know. It never became an issue.
Yeah, I can meditate at will. I slide in. Starts shallow, gets deeper. The longer I go the deeper it gets. Then when I’m done I slide out again over hours and days. Ideally I’d do it 24-7 but there you go.
It’s like my hand is chronically in a tight fist. When I meditate it relaxes and opens up and gets relaxed and floppy.
That’s shikantaza anyway. The other kind of meditation, the concentration, it sorta makes me tighter. But I don’t do that meditation these days.
Positively
No principal involved. The way I see it, I have this thing before me and addressing it seems to be a personal one-man job. So ya, I never felt drawn to consulting like that. But when I find somebody else who meditates I do like to talk to them. Sometimes intensely.
I meditate on my own
Ya, I’ve felt like that. Not in a way that was associated with or caused by meditation, as far as I can tell, tho.
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I guess 15 minutes. Maybe 60. Time kinda gets away from me sometimes.
There’s always idea-stuff flowing by. Like, I dunno, snow falling. It’s whether I react to it that makes it into thinking, basically. When I don’t interact with it by reacting to it by moving my attention and such it isn’t really thinking anymore. It’s like snow.
This community is mostly children and children are intensely conformist. Irrationally, violently so.
Do you have a method for getting visions, seeing the gods or something like that? Like meditating or fasting or something.
Also, have you seen that collection of David Lynch’s short works? It’s got its moments. Featuring Harry Dean Stanton being musically deep. I have only seen it on torrent.
https://thepiratebay.zone/search/david lynch/1/99/0