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I think meditation is similar to physical exercise which you need to do a little bit frequently, to stay healthy.

You don't need to do sports but if you stop walking altogether your physical health deteriorates. Your joints get arthritic.

So the goal of meditation should not be some Cosmic Epiphany Truth or Satori or Nirvana or Samadhi. Those come and go. The goal is to keep your mind healthy, to get the toxins out of it by doing meditation not too much not too little.



You do not need to sit down to mediate. That is the biggest myth. I mediate while going about my day.


> You do not need to sit down to mediate.

I find that if I try to mediate standing up I come across as aggressive.


Some things are better done in private, because some people don't get what you're doing and feel fazed or threatened by it, for whatever reason, typically ignorance or intolerance.


Yes, usually privacy is valued over transparency in mediation. It depends on the parties involved and their concerns, naturally.


Right, it is a myth.

There's a lot of misinformation floating around about the subject.

Basically, any activity can be a meditation. So can no activity, e.g. zazen.


I hope you don’t mean literal toxins, because that would be total nonsense




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