TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Every post in Ye Power Tripping Bastards 4 hours ago:
Would it be a proper shitpost if nobody shat on it?
- Comment on Meditation is like drugs but better 4 days ago:
zen meditation… trying to illicit vivid imagery in the mind… it sounded like a whole lot of junk mind flailing.
See, but, this is exactly the kind of attitude I’m trying to address in my comment. People judging other people’s meditation practices. You didn’t specifically go so far (at least not explicitly) as to call it “not meditation”, but you’re still judging the practice without really understanding it. (Not that I think you should be judging it even if you did understand it.)
The practice you’re describing might have been something called “kasiṇa”. And it’s known to “illicit vivid imagery.” There are multiple kinds of kasina practices, but they originate from the Pali Canon itself in works such as the Visuddhimagga and Vimuttimagga^[ The Fire Kasina Meditation Site ]^[ Wikipedia page on Kammaṭṭhāna ].
That’s as meditation as meditation gets. If you’re going to call that “junk mind flailing”, the Buddha would like a word.
Now, I don’t know for sure kasina was what you’re describing. But it’s also beside the point. I don’t think meditators really have a leg to stand on to claim that even something like sitting quietly, eyes closed, and playing the whole original Star Wars trilogy in their head from memory is “bad meditation” or “not meditation” just because they judgmentally can’t imagine it “exercising” a “muscle”/“mental skill”/etc. (Daniel Ingram, one of the co-authors of the fire kasina site I cited earlier and a huge advocate for fire kasina as a practice, talks about using fire kasina to conjure vivid images of dragons from Lord of the Rings, kinda just because he’s a geek (and I mean that endearingly) and it’s fun. Though he’s also strongly of the opinion that kasina can lead to insight.) “Meditation” is not the sort of term that a lot of people tend to try to gatekeep, and I think that’s basically never a good thing.
- Comment on Meditation is like drugs but better 4 days ago:
No, meditation is not like drugs.
You’ve been doing the wrong meditation. ;)
Seriously, though, I kindof bristle any time I hear anyone say that “meditation is” some particular thing. What meditation is is extremely broad and varied to the point that it nearly defies definition.
Sure many buddhist jhana practitioners will say that the purpose of jhanas is insight, but what if I develop my jhana skills and never seek insight? Is that really not meditation?
Or, if I sit quietly and learn to contact my subconscious and/or Jungian archetypes. Or if I make up my own idiosyncratic form of practice specifically in order to try to become a hungry ghost in the next life, is that really not meditation?
(Mind you, it’s valid to accept a particular strict definition of meditation within a specific context. If I was at a vipassana retreat doing white skeleton meditation, that’d probably be kindof assholeish. And if the teacher was like “no, correct meditation is such-and-such,” I wouldn’t be like “nuh-uh my ass is meditation, man”. This situation is pretty different. If OP has found a way to “meditate” that’s “better than drugs” rather than “training the mind to be calm, patient, observant and focused”, that hardly makes it invalid or “not meditation.” Any more so than if they say “nice to meet you” rather than “hey, what’s up”, that makes it “not a greeting.”)
- Comment on O no 5 days ago:
The internet has reached its peak with this meme.
- Comment on Becoming a Subversive, 1 week ago:
The only thing more subversive than silly hats is signing your Lemmy posts.
TootSweet
- Comment on There is no Tomorrow, only more Today 1 week ago:
There’s no more today, there’s only now.
- Comment on A cheat sheet for why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 1 week ago:
ChatGPT
Arm yourself with knowledge
Bruh
- Comment on Do you know any software development philosophy books? 1 week ago:
My favorite book ever. “Hackers” by Steven Levy. It really does a good job of giving you a sense of the early days of software development and the background behind/before the Free Software movement.
- Comment on Deepfakes now come with a realistic heartbeat, making them harder to unmask 1 week ago:
Wait, they can detect your pulse via a video? How? Variation in flushing during systolic vs diastolic phases of the heartbeat? Unconscious synchronization of affect/verbalization/whatever with one’s own heartbeat? Given the following, I think it must be closer to the former:
The analysis of the transmission of light through the skin and underlying blood vessels has long been indispensable in medicine, for example in pulse oximeters. Its digital cousin, so-called remote photoplethysmography (rPPP), is an emerging method in telehealthcare, which uses webcams to estimate vital signs. But rPPP can, in theory, also be used in deepfake detectors.
In recent years, such experimental rPPP-based deepfake detectors have proven good at distinguishing between real and deepfaked videos.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 2 weeks ago:
Reddit: “Nobody gets to secretly experiment on Reddit users with AI-generated comments but us!”
- Comment on does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng? 3 weeks ago:
Jean-Luc Picard is entirely too classy to snore.
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding octopus_ink’s comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they’re just a Lemmy user hoping we don’t get flooded with 4chan assholes.
- Comment on Zoom is down for many – here's what we know about the video calling platform's outage 3 weeks ago:
4chan and Jira too. It does seem like a lot of things have had outages lately.
- Comment on Open Source AI Definition Erodes the Meaning of “Open Source” 3 weeks ago:
I really can’t overstate how much respect I have for Kuhn and the SFC. If RMS and the FSF are the Free Software movement’s past, Kuhn and the SFC are it’s future, and I can’t imagine anyone better to carry that particular torch.
- Comment on Google created a new AI model for talking to dolphins 4 weeks ago:
Why wasn’t I told that was an option sooner?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 4 weeks ago:
I hate agreeing with a CEO.
- Comment on Stuck 4 weeks ago:
Fwizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 5 weeks ago:
But the title of the article is “Did ‘The Simpsons’ Predict President Trump’s Death”. And it’s rated “false”. If The Simpsons did predict his death, just not as indicated by the specific image mentioned in the article, surely that would be mentioned and the overall rating would be something like “mixture” rather than “false”.
I suppose unless The Simpsons predicted his death in an episode released after that Snopes article was written. In which case, fair point.
- Comment on Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on No background, AMA 5 weeks ago:
If Satan walked into the room you’re currently in right now and said “I’m here to collect your soul to torture for eternity as payment for the bigger dick I gave your great great great grandfather on this date in 1925 unless you can make me laugh in the next 30 seconds”, what would you do?
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 5 weeks ago:
Yes, this is a shitpost community, but I still feel obligated to make sure folks know this isn’t real.
- Comment on Obama wasn't a hero; he just wasn't terrible 5 weeks ago:
Couldn’t agree more.
- Comment on Forever exists ♥️ 1 month ago:
…asks a user whose username makes it seem that they pretty certainly know exactly what’s wrong with that website.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This really isn’t the right community for this post.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 1 month ago:
Probably if you’re too lazy to grab a cord, line it up with the plug, and press gently but firmly. With wireless, you can just lob it vaguely in the right vicinity and not overstrain your fine motor skills.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
AI can’t do that.
- Comment on Wonder what it tastes like 1 month ago:
Probably goes well with mushrooms.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
Erasable pen. Just because I’m contrary.
- Comment on They are lying to us 1 month ago:
Please tell me “rectify” does not mean “insert into a rectum.”
- Comment on Is this true? Software companies had diversity quotas to meet, and realized it was easier to turn autistic men into women than it was to turn women into software engineers 1 month ago:
OP is like the new Don_Dickle, only more so.