from [/villagepump/ no need to sit in meditation](https://scrapbox.io/villagepump/ no need to sit in meditation). from Dogmatic Meditation Commentary
It’s important to “reduce the amount of stimulus coming in.”
- Sitting is an option as a method to achieve this.
- Choice of relaxing in the bath or walking.
No need to sit in meditation.
- Maybe zazen (seated Zen meditation, usu. in a cross-legged position) is the image of what you’re supposed to sit in.
- Some sects emphasize sitting.
- But there are walking sects.
- Zen meditation
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In Rinzai, as it is also called “running meditation performed while walking,” one walks at a brisk pace, sometimes as fast as one can run.
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In contrast, in the Soto sect, one breath is half a step, and in one breath you walk half the width of your foot.
- https://www.engakuji.or.jp/blog/33633/
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- For example, even if you take a bath and just sit in a state of blankness, your mind is still calm, which is a kind of meditation.
- Some people think of meditation as some kind of special ritual.
- That’s because some people want to stage it like a special ceremony.
- Related: Intellectual production is not stoicism.
- Even if Buddha was enlightened by zazen, it is not right to think that sitting is essential because of it.
- It is penance to put someone who is not used to sitting on a hard floor into a state where they feel “suffering” if their buttocks hurt and their feet hurt.
- Buddha didn’t tell us to suffer. Rather, Buddha said no suffering.
- We do not become enlightened by doing painful things.
- To begin with, compared to Buddha’s time, people today spend the majority of their time sitting.
- Level of sitting too much is bad for your health.
- Sitting further from that state does not have much of a “switch from normal life” effect.
- Rather, vigorous exercise followed by rest is closer to the original “zazen.”
- There’s one called Kundalini Meditation where you exercise for 30 minutes and then relax for 30 minutes.
- I don’t think you can meditate while watching Twitter, indeed.
- In other words, “reducing the amount of stimulus coming in” is important.
- Bathrooms are also suitable for meditation because there’s little stimulation if there’s nothing in the bathroom, and you can’t meditate if you play Netflix.
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