I really like listening to you in English. You have a nice clarity of narrative and pleasant accent. To the topic, I also found out that meditation teaches this kind of thinking and I really like it. Before I saw only what I wanted to see in a sense, that there was always some assumption about reality, some goal and I perceived only what seemed important to know. When I started seeing world this way, I found that I was totally wrong about many things. It's also easier to live this way, because there are so many oportunities I would never excpect where they are. Also as aspiring philosopher I like this way of looking at world, because looking for strict, pragrmatic, universal worldview sooner or later lead to paradox. When I describe what is instead of trying to explain it, there is no place for paradox. Of course this is a matter of balance, I like forming theories, explanations, but thanks to meditation I easily deal with paradoxes because it's just matter of data I refused to perceive. I also found out other interesting impact of Zen practice (as it's not only meditation, it's also attitude, values) is that my focus shifted from things to processes. European people tend to define objects, try to find out what are they built of and what do they do. This is part of greek philosophical heritage. Now I tend to focus on interaction and transformation. It also made my thinking more paralellized. When thinking about objects and their actions, it seems natural to suspect that there is only one at a time, there is only one cause at a time, which is usually wrong. It might have something to do with WYSIATI effect. If I look at big picture and many paralell processes, it's natural that worldview become more abiguous. And this is good, it makes me think when i need to. ;D Best wishes.
I really like listening to you in English. You have a nice clarity of narrative and pleasant accent.
To the topic, I also found out that meditation teaches this kind of thinking and I really like it. Before I saw only what I wanted to see in a sense, that there was always some assumption about reality, some goal and I perceived only what seemed important to know. When I started seeing world this way, I found that I was totally wrong about many things. It's also easier to live this way, because there are so many oportunities I would never excpect where they are. Also as aspiring philosopher I like this way of looking at world, because looking for strict, pragrmatic, universal worldview sooner or later lead to paradox. When I describe what is instead of trying to explain it, there is no place for paradox. Of course this is a matter of balance, I like forming theories, explanations, but thanks to meditation I easily deal with paradoxes because it's just matter of data I refused to perceive.
I also found out other interesting impact of Zen practice (as it's not only meditation, it's also attitude, values) is that my focus shifted from things to processes. European people tend to define objects, try to find out what are they built of and what do they do. This is part of greek philosophical heritage. Now I tend to focus on interaction and transformation. It also made my thinking more paralellized. When thinking about objects and their actions, it seems natural to suspect that there is only one at a time, there is only one cause at a time, which is usually wrong. It might have something to do with WYSIATI effect. If I look at big picture and many paralell processes, it's natural that worldview become more abiguous. And this is good, it makes me think when i need to. ;D
Best wishes.