Split between posting here or on /x/, but it directly pertains to literature, so here it goes.Please recommend some books on meditation, less focused on self-help elements and more on the esoteric dimensions of the practice, along with practical guidance on how to meditate. Any tradition is welcome, but please recommend only literature for which you can personally attest to the quality. Goodreads and google is full of low quality recommendations. Too much chaff.
>>25630060the entire book is an exercise in meditation
If you’re serious, you should get an experienced and trustworthy teacher who can tell you when you are misinterpreting what is written and deluding yourself. Because you have indicated that your wish is to skip the basics and dive into ‘esoteric’ subjects, I would doubly advise you to get an irl guide.
>he thinks he can skip his ngöndroLol. Lmao even.
>>25630060chuddha indeed
You're going to be disappointed in what mediation is, op. It's like jogging. There's no esoteric mystery to running backwards instead of forwards or putting some plates in a backpack and jogging with that on.
>>25631518It's years of nothing followed by two days straight of all the angels coming down from heaven and singing songs of praise in your ears then back to nothing for years and you have to remember to not put any stake into what happened those two days
Why are normies so drawn to eastern spirituality? It has always made me feel uneasy. Something insincere about it.
>>25631556Church stabbed itself in the foot a dozen times and normies still require some sort of ecclesiastical checkmark so they look east
>>25631556There's a whole generation of black guys who live in Queens who purchased these mail order kung fu VHS tapes and have been practicing kung fu by watching the tapes and doing the moves along with them in their garage for like 40 years now. If you mistakenly talk to them about fighting or anything related to Chinese stuff they will give you the most condescending lecture of pure nonsense that is possibly generateable by a human mind.
>>25631580And yet they will be reincarnated as mighty wheel-turning emperors while your average /lit/ user will become a slug
>>25631592You can always bring up "waterbugs" and they'll get distracted about how much they hate them.
>>25630060Ānāpānasati SuttaSome people don't have the aptitude for meditation or refuse to practice daily. I don't know which it is but for me it is the most powerful thing I can do. Bar none.
>>25631580and they're based
