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Metatation - rant - is it
Is Metatation a thing? I’ve been using it as a mantra during meditation. Somehow the metatation mantra helps me calm down all the meta’ing always seem to be do’ing. Metatation has made my mediation practice more fun.... I think you’re followable and I think everything is healthy. Do you think there’s some next stage or practice you should have gotten to by now? Ever since Relateful Camp and Jordan’s class on non-dual relating I’ve been taking walks and meditating and the non-dual stuff seems... as a psycho-tech the defining of jhana as focusing on pleasure is a good intro to getting into it. But potentially very limiting to what’s possible. But, classically, in Buddhist text, it’s defined as the mind’s temporary absence of the five hindrances of craving for sensual... Micro-transformation: unitive practice from Russian Orthodoxy ☦︎
Fun fact: Ceaselessly, inwardly repeating the Jesus prayer “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me” from your heart has consistently led to stabilized unitive state-stages (Theosis) for more than a millennium. This practice is called the Hesychasm....