Philosophical Meditation 

You are not alone, I do exactly the same)

Capt Char dude i talk to myself before a big presentation or an exam and it helps so much! definately you are not alone. appreciate it!!

Capt Char when i'm not in a hurry i think about a lot of things. including some of these questions and alot of random, pointless but fulfilling things. i do talk to myself, but only when i'm alone, otherwise i just mumble.

Capt Char, I go for my morning nature walks almost everyday! its my top priority :) and you are not crazy, it will actually keep from going crazy lol I sleep well, I have no stress, not as anxious anymore, and hey I am not fat anymore lol Walk 20 miles a week. So I am with you on this brother, and think aloud!! or sometimes use music.

Hey man, its been proven in many ways that walk (or any type of activity) helps us too! Socrates used to take walks during which he talked with others/was giving lectures, he believed that walking while talking helps to clear out the mind. I would say that connecting philosophical meditation and walk is the best option. Dont care about what people might think. Brb, I need to find a synonym to a word "walk".

Thanks very much - and take them slowly...

I try to do one a day during my study breaks as a treat :)))) love them

great idea! I love them too! Hope they keep churning them out, though I imagine it's quite a bit of work

Absolutely. I also sometimes re-watch a day or 2 later if I feel I haven't held on to enough information

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Or create your own "Meditations" book. His book was meant for him, yours will be custom made. You could start though by adding the prompts you see in this video.

I usually listen to Qur'an recitation and it gives me lasting peace

As a Christian, I listen to the Bible. So I understand you. God bless you, brother. Alhamdulillah إسميل واشيره

@@Joe-bn9fz God's peace and blessings be upon you too brother

Johnson Sepp it makes sense.

+Leonard Ney The phrase *does* make sense, I think, though I can also see how it might appear to be a contradiction in terms, so I'm just trying to explain it for people who might be struggling to make sense of it.

It makes sense as such (if you open yourself to the poetry in it), though thoughts not thought through would be a clearer way to say this.

@@danielr3522 no

Un-Ford Ford's.

so psychedelics could really help? did u take it on your own?

Kenny Rodger that's the noah elkrief method

bamischijfje123 No, I'm correcting irrational feelings. We get caught up in things and stepping back and seeing how silly it is to get emotional about most things, dissolves negative feelings.

Ocam Tille I've never read him and I know about it so I don't think it is originally his idea. Most of this stuff was written about in Ancient philosophy. I highly recommend reading from the Stoics. Marcus Aurelius and Seneca covered these ideas quite a bit. Nothing wrong with a fresh explanation though. I might check him out.

Fate leads the willing; the unwilling it drags. You might have also seen some variation of it, such as Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant. Originally this was written by the Roman poet Seneca - ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt, if you want the Latin version.

Just read Dostoevsky.

Anton K currently reading notes from underground

Charles Dickens ok

***** I know

***** no need, man they'll do it when the time is right.

Very interesting. I shall try your method.

no doubt a lovely thought, I'm all for face to face communication but perhaps a bit too broad of a definition of what meditation is.

I agree with you totally. We need other people more than we care to admit.

That's exactly what I want to do but I can't find people to communicate with or they eventually end up leaving me, I just end up lonely often and it's out of my control

And then pandemic says hello.

***** An admirable but difficult task. You should do a follow-up on what to do after you've articulated your anxieties on paper. It could otherwise just spiral further down into anxiety, lying sleepless over these revelations, like "So I wrote that X was mean to me not because he's a bad person, but that he might be controlled by alien brain parasites. Does that say something about me? If so, what? And is it a bad or good thing? I used to like dill crisps, but now I don't. Am I being controlled by alien brain parasites who wage war on dill, their mortal enemy?" Questions leading to answers which raise even more questions.

+Stefan B. you really missed the idea of all this and I don't think you understood what they were asking/saying

a very bored person It's possible. How did you interpret it?

"The point of meditation is detachment from the self, not immersion in it." That is only true if your definition of self is the mind, aka the "forms" of mental experience. Opposed to the awareness aka the "space" in which the forms are seen. In Vedantic traditions, this aware "light" that illuminates thoughts and the rest of the dynamic mind, is considered to be the Self. In meditation the goal is to simply abide as this Self. This is often confusing to westerners because this awareness isn't an "entity" so much as it is a kind of "knowing emptiness."

The deathless face of the unborn mind. Yes, that is what I meant by the "self" since, as you pointed out, in Western culture that's what we perceive to be the "self"; a collection of our conscious cognitive activities.

Fighting strengthens it. Fight through being an example.

I practice Buddhist and Vedic meditation daily and while this is essential, it is a very different tool compared to philosophical meditation. Mindfulness and zazen can empty our mind, but it can't intellectually solve a problem or anxiety through logic - it achieves a similar result, but it lacks the rational thinking that philosophical meditation holds dear. The two are very different but equally important.

No self, no problem!

Alexandros what Vedic meditation do you do? We practise chanting! :)

If you're going to abuse an organ, choose wisely (:

Hey mate, i know it's a 4 year old comment, but if u still have this account, how it was for you? What did change?

@@bielasp It let me organize my thoughts better and to realize I needed to train myself to think several steps ahead about the consequences of any actions before acting

@@GamiCross that's deep, i really need to try this style of meditation, u still doing it till nowadays ?

I feel you bro

Ignacio Rodríguez Hahahahahah!!!

this is funny since im trans, but yeah he totally did!

Survive the Jive nice

We are not our mind... we can recognise these thoughts but understand that they are temporary and separate from our true self

Completely agree and will go further to point out that the techniques described in this video have parity with pratyahara -- crudely translated as "sense withdrawal" -- the 5th limb in Patanjali's treatise on yoga. This is an important bridge to meditation, not meditation itself. Indeed, it's hard to imagine prolonged, effective and consistent meditative absorption without this ability to analyse and put distance between the senses and their mental and emotional disturbances. In that context it's a great video and I will definitely bookmark for friends who are comfortable with self exploration in a secular context. I'm also compelled to mention a pratyahara technique whereby conscious thoughts are used as bait to fish for the unconscious thoughts underlying them. Brilliant!

Western philosophy is more practical and in my opinion preferable because it helps us reach ataraxia through the practice of stoic exercises: To imagine the worst possible scenario, being conscious of our death daily, and plato’s view that we may see how little our problems are. I find eastern philosophy to be vague, it uses examples and stories which are open to many interpretations. It also does teach much forced suppression of negative emotions, western thought teaches us to purge it through catharsis. My recomendations would be Marcus Aurelius which I consider the Buddha of the West, except he had a far greater impact on my life and admire him far more, for Buddha abandoned his position, Marcus embraced his emerorship selflessly to become the first and only philosopher king to have ever lived and an example to all. I recommend Seneca, Epictetus, Cicero, and Epicurus. As well as of course other classics of the West such as Plato and Aristotle’s works and Pythagoras and his golden verses and mathematics for the soul and daily keeping of a journal to self scrutinize oneself. Also our equivalent of yoga is the discipline of the Kalos Stenos ( you know it as calisthenics) or beautiful strength, a practice which emphasizes the western thought of patience, perseverance, and stoic practice of indifference to pain, the beautiful strife, an art form believed to come from Herakles himself.

Think you missed the point: this is about exploring and integrating and accepting, not rejecting.

There is another video of the same name on the channel..

Cheers from Olomouc :)

Yes, it's another guided meditation with one of the ladies of School of Life; it's rather nice too.

Captain Ithinari can confirm

although the origin of this so called western philosophy is the east

She was hot

***** Thank you, so glad to read that!

I saw that earlier video, too. I suspect the reason they re-shot it is that so many commenters seemed utterly distracted from the message by the sight of Dr. Roxburgh in bed (she is rather easy on the eyes). Same idea holds, though. I took up philosophical meditation and do it every week, now.

Jodi Compton I think you are right. And something else: some important ideas are too good to come up only once. Re-stating things is sometimes even more important than bringing up new ideas - that most times are not even that new...

Her voice is one of the most pleasant I ever heard. I don't know what is the exact reason she is not in the videos anymore, but I really hope its not the comments because that would be a really bad response from SoL .

that is better see it as a one time-time investment in yourself

It took me longer than an hour the first time I did it but quickly got faster the more I practiced it. Usually your thoughts will become more precise (daily or weekly) and less broad (an indeterminate time before you started this) which is easier to write out.

but the purpose of meditation is to detach from thoughts(the mind), only then you can know who you really are and go beyond suffering caused by the mind

There is a clear misunderstanding in a lot of people that meditation is meant to be, as you say, relaxing. It can be, but that’s not the purpose. In eastern meditation you have to sit upright and be alert to your body, breath, and any thoughts that pop up. That is why many bring it up here as a better option, because it encompasses much more. The exercise in this video is more pragmatic and less concerned with the ‘true self’.

Don't worry, you'll get to it. Think about all those people that discover themselves only at the age of 40, or 60, or those that choose to never go into themselves.

I'm 20 and it doesn't work like that. Try to focus on the present and current environment.

ismellrudolph you could recover them within a year if you really wanted to. stop limiting yourself and you can do it.

Jawad Kamran especially if you have a significant other

i think thats a great idea!