Comment by jahala | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jahala | Hacker News Reader

Meditation - «getting used to»

A most elementary form of meditation, is getting used to placing your attention on a sensation and keeping it anchored there - even when other sensations or thoughts arise.

Following the breath- place your awareness, your attention, on the sensation of air passing through your nostrils. Count one inbreath and outbreath cycle as «1», and count until 10 or 21. Decide before you start, how many repetitions of 10 or 21 you will do.

If at any point your attention has drifted to a different sensation - seeing, hearing etc, or thinking, visual imagery etc, then congratulate yourself for noticing, and restart from «1».

I recommend «The attention revolution» by Alan B. Wallace

So attention is all we need?

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  abs(cinema)

In most cases, the quality of your attention determines your quality of life. Your ability to focus on education, work, personal relationships etc will often determine the outcomes. So yeah, it's an elementary factor that most other things in our experience rests upon.

Thank you. I like the comparison of "meditation" with "sport": it is not all the same, even if there are commonalities between some disciplines.

It is rare to see laypeople discuss some of the different types and which one may be best suited for a particular goal.

If the goal is simply relieving stress, performing some sport outdoors —especially team sports— is probably more effective than any meditation, for most people.

So you can place your attention on a single session of Claude Code, count to 21, and switch to another? :)

No, the same session. Start it over again, like in Westworld. Repeat until you become one with Claude.

Why 21?

Because is half of 42

No idea, but the five tibetan rites were also recommended to me with 21 repetitions. Perhaps it's an Eastern thing.

thanks

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