Meditation = Sex with reality

Meditation is pure pleasure, you feel so wild inside. It is inner freedom. You breathe like an animal, feel like an animal. It is like sex. The senses, the emotions, AARGH!!! I just love it.

 

just don't get attached to that pleasure

 

Brilliant metaphor. I agree that the 'pleasure' aspect really doesn't quite fit in; but I like the idea a lot.

 

What does it mean, to you, to be attached?

 

Why?

 

if we're talking about attachment in meditation, then it's simply holding onto a thought or emotion. so i guess it means not trying too hard to experience pleasure, and not being fearful of its impermanence.

 

i feel that sensation soon after i begin meditating, right before i'm in deep.

 

If the pleasure happens, enjoy it - but the seeking of that pleasure shouldn't be the drive; nor something to cling to.

 

You mean like mental masturbation?

 

Symbiote, I agree. Trying, making an effort, ruins everything in meditation. It is more natural to meditate in a way that is effortless to your body.

Grim, I understand your point. Meditation is not a quest. You receive, you heal. However, I think anything can be the drive at some point. There are thousands of different things that might motivate people to meditate, thousands of things to meditate on, from pleasure to pain, from emotions to mathematics, from music to complete silence.

In the end, however, the only way to know you're doing it right is if it feels right. That's what I meant with the word ''pleasure''.

The pleasure... to simply be alive!!!

 

Mental? Yes meditation is mental, but also physical.

Masturbation? Perhaps. Meditation probably is as innate as sexuality, and both activities are pleasureable, to a certain extent (of course you don't masturbate nor meditate all day long...! A couple of minutes, and I'd call it a day!) And althought it's usually performed alone, its benefits on human interactions are tremendous. In the long term, meditation might awaken you to some things about humans and life that can really be beneficial for your surrounding... unlike masturbation...!

 

if you cling to any one thought you are not really getting a full meditation you are not allowing your soul to work out its own problems

 

hmmm cant say i ever felt like that.

 

I couldn't agree more. To me, the pleasure to meditate is a symptom of problems being solved, tensions being releived, etc. It is not the only symptom, of course.