{"id":138,"date":"2019-01-06T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T20:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/wordpress\/?p=138"},"modified":"2019-04-25T20:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:12:38","slug":"on-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/on-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"On Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For me, the meditation is a\nconstant, continuous, ultimately uninterruptable state of mindfulness and\nawareness. There is nothing mystical or complicated about it. You do need to\ncontrol your breath to achieve it, but over that, it is not supposed to be more\ncomplicated in any way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I remember being at Heidelberg\nLaureate Forum in Germany, where students and young researchers, including me,\nwere given a unique opportunity for several days to meet and socialise with the\nlaureates of prestigious awards: Abel Prize, Turing Award and ACM Prize in\nComputing, Fields Medal as well as Nevanlinna Prize. There, I asked many of\nthose laureates, “Why <\/em>does the Universe exist?”,\nas I have been genuinely curious and wanting to find an answer. The answers\nfrom the titans of science were interesting and varied quite a lot, but all\nwere simple and wise. The general message was that it is a too broad question\nto ask. One compelling answer from one of those achieved scientists was that we\nshall not expect to find an explanation because the God did not create us so\ndifferent such that only few of us are able to find a sophisticated answer to\nsuch complicated question. He said that it is the opposite, the life should be\nsimple and everyone <\/em>can easily comprehend why and how the world exists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I still ask the question\nmyself about the Universe sometimes, as for the meditation, I believe that the\nprimary practice of it is straightforward: you just smoothly make your best\neffort to be mindful, all the time, but without overdoing it and exhausting\nyourself. Naturally, over time, the practice of awareness makes it perfect, and\nthe enlightenment comes. Of course, it might not that simple as it sounds, but\nI still believe it is pretty simple. The path is supported by reading, talking\nand thinking, and a good mentor really helps, but my firm belief is that the\nroot of the practice is in the focused state of mindfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An exercise could help to improve\nthe awareness in a relatively simple, effortless way. You could say yourself\nthe contrary: “I don’t want to be mindful and aware. I don’t want to be\nenlightened. I am okay without mindfulness. I don’t need awareness and\nignorance is fine with me.” Since those statements are quite contradictory\nto what you would like to achieve, the brain and conscious start questioning\nwhether you are really okay with those statements. By questioning whether you\nare indeed okay to continue being not mindful, you, surprisingly, start being\nmore aware. This is a “lazy” way which could be repeated to start\npractising it. Of course, it is important to be careful about it, for you might\nconvince yourself subconsciously that “you don’t want to be aware”.\nAn alternative might be in asking yourself one of the following questions:\n“Am I mindful? Do I want to be mindful? Could mindfulness help me? What if\nI am mindful today; what might happen because of that? What if I am not mindful\ntoday; and what might happen as a consequence?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For me, the meditation is a constant, continuous, ultimately uninterruptable state of mindfulness and awareness. There is nothing…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mindfulness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuraperov.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}