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| author | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Johnson <mail@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2025-02-05 00:00:00 +0000 |
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Replace instances of 'any more' with 'anymore'
'anymore' means 'any longer'. 'any more' is incorrect.
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diff --git a/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md b/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md index bf2c29a..e556a5f 100644 --- a/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md +++ b/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Allow me to clear up what's going on here. If you try to use meditation to stop Using meditation to try to make something else happen means you're not giving full attention to your present experience. There's a stream of thought distracting you which is saying "I'm meditating. Am I enlightened yet? No. I'm still dissatisfied...what about now? Nope. Still not enlightened. This isn't working...". This sabotages your attempt to fully connect to the present moment. -But there is a sense in which meditation enables real progress, even if you have an ulterior motive. If you spend enough time doing mindfulness meditation, you strengthen your attention. You start to become aware of your ulterior motive as a mere thought happening in the present moment. Then it ceases to motivate you because you see it for what it is: just another thought. It's unable to sneak up behind you and sabotage you any more because there's nothing to sabotage. +But there is a sense in which meditation enables real progress, even if you have an ulterior motive. If you spend enough time doing mindfulness meditation, you strengthen your attention. You start to become aware of your ulterior motive as a mere thought happening in the present moment. Then it ceases to motivate you because you see it for what it is: just another thought. It's unable to sneak up behind you and sabotage you anymore because there's nothing to sabotage. ### Ulterior Motives For Meditation A big problem with novice meditators is they develop ulterior motives for meditating without realizing it. For instance, they meditate once or twice just to see what will happen and it produces mild calming effects. So they start using meditation as a stress reduction tool. But then, instead of meditating without expectations like they were before, they spend the whole time thinking about what's making them anxious and how the meditation they're not doing is supposed to be stopping it. |