Vorax and Hobo. Convesation log.

[BlackRain]

Good point. I suppose it's because Vora started teaching me when I was twelve.

I had to learn how to understand him pretty quickly.

[CrazyHobo]

exactly.
It's all about adapting to your situation

[CrazyHobo]

give me a list of goal you fail to understand how to achieve and I will do my best to assist.

[BlackRain]

The only thing I fail to see how to do is how to silence those extra voices.

Discipline, okay, I got that.

Willpower, okay, I understand that.

Awareness, same thing.

What I don't understand, is how those three things help to silence the voices.

With me, before something can help me, I must understand how it helps.

Care to enlighten me, my friend?

[CrazyHobo]

It's a meditation technique.

Sit down into seiza or lotus (half-lotus also works) position, inhale with nose for 2 seconds, exhale with mouth for 8 seconds. Adjust the breathing.

Then imagine yourself being in the center of a river, but remaining in our positions and unscathed by the flowing water. Imagine the water as all the thoughts, that are flowing in your mind. Every voice, thought, dream, EVERYTHING flows past you into an empty void, where it is destroyed.

That's it.

[BlackRain]

Of course, my version of this river will be much darker and far more morbid than what most people will interpret that as, but it sounds like it help quite a bit. I'll start a regular schedule for my meditations.

Sun up, and sun down should do nicely for now.

Lotus would be crossed-legs, correct? because that is how I normally sit when I meditate. Crossed legs, and a straight back to help open the airways better.

[CrazyHobo]

Google it.

It doesn't matter how morbid and twisted the river is. Just let it flow through you.

[BlackRain]

I'm not so ignorant as to believe that such practices cannot be individualized, because they are supposed to, otherwise a very small number would benefit, and the rest would be confused.

[CrazyHobo]

confusion is inevitable.

Any other questions you have?

[BlackRain]

None for now, my friend. thank you.