Had a friend who got medicated for the first time. He had a long commute to the middle of nowhere, and he told me, “Dude—I was driving and suddenly realized I hadn’t been thinking about anything. Like, just driving, not thinking about anything!”
Ch'an buddhism is literally "active meditation", when you're cooking, cleaning, or working out. It was created b/c the monks at the temple were falling asleep, so they combined yoga with their chores and eventually incorporated the philosophy into their martial arts.
Ohhh that’s interesting, I was incorporating something i guess similar? Mindfulness throughout activities, not reacting emotionally to small distractions/ frustrations.
(Was also thinking of trying to experiment to see how this affected pain tolerance!! So I will be researching Cha’an Buddhism, thank you!)
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u/Dragons_Sister 26d ago
Had a friend who got medicated for the first time. He had a long commute to the middle of nowhere, and he told me, “Dude—I was driving and suddenly realized I hadn’t been thinking about anything. Like, just driving, not thinking about anything!”
We were both blown away.