Slavoj Žižek does a guided meditation, then hits back | with Lisa Miller and Destiny 

Bias move

His Inner Self kicked his ass with a bunch of schooling.

I love this man so much. He really is Diogenes. Never seen someone f@$# with everyone so well and so intelligently. He is a quantum power troll

GOAT comment

He isn't a troll, he just talks about Hegel@@dt6822

Fortunately, he was fully identified with his mask.

He said "This world is falling apart, everyone feels lost and you're meditating? MEDITATING??"

seriously

lmao

Very bold of you to be this generous. 0.5 sec tops

It's pretty funny because she framed this as an invitation and so he just declined the invitation.

@@insaneartist8381 he preferred not to

60 seconds from 1:03 to 4:08, she bends spacetime here

@@TheVelvetTV_Riesenglied There are literalists, then there are you guys.

Zizek is a Balkan Chad

Is he really Balkan though? (many are saying this)

He served in Yugoslavian army, he's born in Slovenia, he speaks all south slavic languages except macedonian, so yeah he's balkan af@@ff-qf1th

​@@LARESCIVDoes he speak Bulgarian?

if he doesnt speak macedonian he probably doesnt bulgarian either i'd imagine@@antoinepetrov

Like in a good way?

Destiny is a midgrade argument bot (funny against moronic right wingers, theists) but not a thinker that produces original thought or interpretation.

@@metalman4393 in a bad way imo

Absolutely wasted opportunity imo. They could've gotten into the real meat of all the antagonisms within progressive politics but nope, _iS LifE a gAmE?_

@@schadowizationproductions6205 Explain why.

damn. I didn't catch that first time. amazing xD

That look more like a visualization exercise, nothing about observing the mind or focusing on something like breath an object or feeling, terrible job really!

@@lukeligo7079 that too. She forgot that guided meditation requires going slow, with a low volume.

Love how she begins by “guiding” us through three “deep breaths” in the span of 2.5 seconds.

She did say it was a 60 sec thought visualization

"a psychologist who has studied mindfulness" bro come on

You're fucked. What more can you say?

Hahahaha 🤣.

I want a third door

xddddd

He didn’t say he hated when people talk too much, but when they open up too much to him, and he doesn’t want to hear it. It IS uncomfortable when people tell too much about their inner sincere emotions to us, and it’s actually a sign of respect and kindness to set bounderies and «lie» about your true feelings sometimes. That was his point. It’s socially a sign of goodwill to lie and say «I’m glad to see you» even when you both know they may hate you and secretly want to spill their guts about everything they despise about you. This kind of hypocricy is good. Other types of hypocricy however are typically bad.

Must've been referring to his ex-wife

@@UniMatrix_1 never married.

Zizek is surely losing half of the human experience by not being a little bit more introspective.

@@rogeraraujo4900 I do agree

​@@rogeraraujo4900The human experience is overrated.

It's actually even worse than that if you think about it applying everything we've learned from Slavoj. It is the ultimate con that works very much like religion. You actually pay someone to tell you or help guide you to sit there and do nothing, apparently to reach some ultimate place of enlightened nirvana, that you never reach, and which you can only know you've reached when you have reached it, such that you permanently search in pursuit of that thing which you never know if you have found until you have allegedly found it. 😊 psychology gets one thing right: all your responses to the world, all the emotional pain we endure, everything that we experience, is inside your mind, and is under your control a lot more than you believe. But they're wrong about everything else.

I believe one shouldn’t pay for meditation. There are meditation retriets and centers that only ask you to cover your accomodation and meals if you wish to learn from the teachers. Otherwise the internet and libraries have extensive resources. To me meditation isn’t about sitting and doing nothing or achieving Nirvana. It’s about training patience and sense of presence; training to let go all the unwanted things in your mind or to reflect on the thoughts and emotions you haven’t had the time to pay attention. It’s also effective at reducing stress; research supported not only by psychologists but also neuroscientists.

@@valchaars There's definitely plenty of data and neurological evidence supporting meditation that's very true. I have a feeling that that has more to do with fixing breathing patterns than the subjective experience of letting go, but that's purely speculative.

@@otoyoto7153 Might be true but I wouldn’t disregard subjective experiences just because they’re not scientifically fitting. And here I’d like to quote the late Terrance McKenna. It’s about plant medicines but can be applied to meditation and subjective experiences in general: “Consider a shaman who uses plants to converse with an invisible world inhabited by nonhuman intelligences. This would seem to rate a headline in the supermarket tabloids. Yet anthropologists report such things all the time and no one raises an eyebrow. That is because we tend to assume that the shaman interprets his experience of intoxication as communication with spirits or ancestors. The implication is that you or I would interpret this same experience differently and that therefore it is no big deal that some poor, uneducated campesino thought he was talking with an angel. Xenophobic as this attitude is, it suggests a good operating procedure since what it is saying is, “show me the techniques of your ecstasy and I will judge their effectiveness for myself.” I did this. This is my credential for theories and opinions I hold. I was initially appalled at what I found: the world of shamanism, of allies, shape shifting, and magical attack are far more real than the constructs of science can ever be, because these spirit ancestors and their other world can be seen and felt, they can be known, in the nonordinary reality.” Thousands of people have had deeply profound spiritual experiences from meditation and possibly Zizek hasn’t. Yet I also have the feeling that he hasn’t really tried. If true, then seeking truth about meditation from Zizek would be like seeking travel advice from Kant. Don’t get me wrong, I like the guy and her exercise wasn’t impressive at all, however from where I stand meditation is all about practice and very little about philosophical discussion. One of the strongest representations of the power of meditation for me, has been Thich Quanc Duc - the burning monk. I don’t see another way to explain the unflinching acceptance of his extremely painful passing. Thus saying that one can only get a temporary feeling of gratification and that it has little significance is more than doubtful to me. Apologies for the lengthy answer.

There is plenty of fruit to be found by going within. Most people do not have the patience to practice long enough to see the benefits and usually their lifestyles are totally anithetical to developing the ability to go in. Of course there are many different approaches to meditation and a qualified, skillful teacher is usually very effective in facilitating the process. The fact is even if we totally disregard being able to withdraw the senses from the outside, almost all people are incapable of doing nothing for for a few minutes, and I mean really doing nothing, rather than going through internal dialogue and thinking about how stupid what you are doing is.

Great comment, props to you

I'm still laughing at this two days after reading it

Except Santa is the true mystic and the spiritual path is a pyramid scheme

@@jeangold8789 spiritual path is a pyramid scheme- +1

The bullshit started with Zizek's career.

Tysm

Thanks lol. I could feel my sanity tangibly unraveling during the guided “meditation” 🤪

I thought she would use at least say the classic "focus on your breath" but no, she says for you to THINK, yes to think in a meditation she must know a lot about meditation

Perfectly said. Soon, after Zizek and his contemporaries are gone, we will have only streamers and bimbos in these seats.

You can say that she's identifying herself with the mask of a bimbo very well. What's wrong with that?😂

He does the hard work of thinking so he actually believes in something other than the status quo which giggles to rid themselves of their lack of thinking meeting his excess of belief.

Saying society should be based on lying is hardly critical thinking.

I'd say he is a comical thinker

​@@spiritsplice Thanks for the terribly stupid interpretation of what he said. That was amusing. :)

When it comes to what Eastern philosophies call enlightenment, you're supposed to let go of all your desires and attachments to find inner peace, because fulfillment of desires will always lead to new desires.

@@illomens2766 What happens when you realise that the desire to end all desires is a desire itself?

@@goodwillambassador4102 That too is a desire that you are supposed to let go of.

​@@goodwillambassador4102That's the hard part. It's contradictory approaches aren't just an Eastern thing. It happens in the Western Classical Sciences a lot. It forces an absolute change in perspective. The idea here with a lot of enlightenment practice is that duality is the fall of man and breaking through the veil of duality results in internal peace. It's like hitting the "desire" button repeatedly and so fast it's "on/off" nature becomes illusory and non-existent to your perception. You're phone screen flickers on and off at a rate so fast that your brain could never register it but it just looks lit up constantly regardless.

The problem with seeking out enlightenment through meditative practice is that you can't pick and choose ideals and approaches. A lot of Buddhists, Yogis, Ascetics of all walks of life have a strongly established system that needs to be adhered to. In Western philosophy, we typically think of a more gnostic approach to it in that it's a solely personal journey, whereas traditional Easterners look at it as any other pursuit in mastery like carpentry or masonry.

i think zizek, as a lacanian, would be quite in agreement with this perspective, to a certain extend. lacan, in his mirror theory, is describing how the false sense of self is constituted in mirror stage of individuals life to give him a tool to manage his parts of body etc., and from this point we belive that we are the self

Here's a simple one for u : Would I realise there is light if it weren't against dark background ?

Il Generale Della Rovere

Hell of a word salad you've tossed

​@@ELeviathan33When you grow up you'll be Les hopeless with other people's thoughts....

@@letdaseinlive Cope

@@ELeviathan33 Only incels of thought use the term "word salad".

@@letdaseinlive Even bigger cope

...adhd spectrum?

He’s most definitely audhd lmfao

Achtung Dictator! Hegel Died.

bro has to pretend he's not writing to write 💀

Zizek's a psychoanalyst. I doubt he would care much about being classed on the spectrum.