Problems can often be too difficult to solve in the terms (or the setting) in which they are presented. For example, feeling fear because there is a snake in the room with you is not easy to deal with. To solve this and many other problems, one must “transcend” or go outside of the situation or the description of the problem. For example, one may turn on the light in the room, revealing that the “snake” was just a piece of rope. Quickly, the fear subsides. The problem is solved not by analyzing the snake or the darkness, but by turning on the light, a “transcendental” action.
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Suddenly I like the word “transcendental” more. Wish it wasn’t 85% bad connotation to me though.
Yesterday I had a visceral reaction at one point to the “muddled” nature of my thoughts. I really wanted the muddled-iness to stop. Still do. The thing with meditation is that it often makes me feel more muddled, because I have one foot in and one foot out, and you can feel the texture of it all more.
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