So, Meditation
May. 15th, 2012 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillTo be subtitled: I am taking a break from mixing.
I have been trying to meditate. It is basically paying-attention practice. I sit (or sometimes do other things) and think about my breathing. Just notice it, going in... going out.... going in.... It's not the most interesting thing in the world, which is kind of the point. My mind keeps trying to take off and think about other things. "Like a puppy" say the meditation books. And I keep directing my attention back to my breath. Meditation, at least for me, isn't about the paying attention to the breath. It's about the refocusing attention back to the breath. It's all about the trying again.
Maybe when I get better at it, this will be different.
But in the meantime, it occurred to me to wonder, how much else is really all about the trying again? How much of persistence is really just refocusing wandering attention back to the (objective)?
Speaking of which I'd better refocus my attention back to my mixing.
I have been trying to meditate. It is basically paying-attention practice. I sit (or sometimes do other things) and think about my breathing. Just notice it, going in... going out.... going in.... It's not the most interesting thing in the world, which is kind of the point. My mind keeps trying to take off and think about other things. "Like a puppy" say the meditation books. And I keep directing my attention back to my breath. Meditation, at least for me, isn't about the paying attention to the breath. It's about the refocusing attention back to the breath. It's all about the trying again.
Maybe when I get better at it, this will be different.
But in the meantime, it occurred to me to wonder, how much else is really all about the trying again? How much of persistence is really just refocusing wandering attention back to the (objective)?
Speaking of which I'd better refocus my attention back to my mixing.
