Mo Gawdat explains meditation isn't about silencing your brain. It's shifting from an active state to a focused one, like bench-pressing against distraction. You observe thoughts without judgment from different angles.
There is a belief that meditation is about silencing your brain altogether. Right. Isn't at all. I'm, you know, one of my best, best friends is Geylon Tupton, who's one of the top monks of the uk. And Geylon basically says that meditation is all about that act of getting your mind from active to focused. From active to focus. It's almost like being in the gym and doing bench press. The act of pushing that weight. Okay. The weight of distraction within your mind. And there are many meditations that are actually focused on idea of. No, I want to contemplate something. This meditation is not about a silent brain. It's about a contemplative brain that's actually looking at something from all its angles, unjudgmental, non judgmental in any way, and really trying to see it.
