tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post6877321528487203579..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: The Limits of Understanding, pt 2Daniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-2104575325765333092017-02-08T21:26:12.359-08:002017-02-08T21:26:12.359-08:00The reason to meditate seems the same to me as the...The reason to meditate seems the same to me as the reason to write. If you understand an idea completely, it's already a bit boring to write about it, no? Something happens during the writing that I used to think of as a process of more fully understanding the topic at hand. But now, after reading this post and thinking about understanding in the context of meditating, it seems to me that writing sometimes belongs more in the "doing" bucket. Or maybe this is what you're already getting at when you bring up Nietzsche et al. Lindsay Meiselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17250501133788792507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-53765714776983951392017-02-08T19:02:44.893-08:002017-02-08T19:02:44.893-08:00Fuckin aye: understanding has been my go-to, my to...Fuckin aye: understanding has been my go-to, my tonic, my intoxicant, my ground, all at once. And, yes, meditation is incredible. But — or and — I have to resist my temptation to understand it and be done. The doing is so so so different than the understanding. Which may be obvious to everyone else. Sometimes, I'm just a slow idiot like that. Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-81407997910734607612017-02-07T20:00:36.219-08:002017-02-07T20:00:36.219-08:00I like this. It articulates something so obvious i...I like this. It articulates something so obvious it must have been difficult to see: that understanding has been a kind of guiding principle in your life. I think you had a phase of thinking about seeing, and a phase of thinking about doing, and maybe now you're in a phase of thinking about understanding. <br /><br />Also, isn't meditating nice?Lindsay Meiselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17250501133788792507noreply@blogger.com