Author: Warren Tang

I write about linguistics and philosophy. I also write poetry and take photographs.

My three reasons for taking up meditation

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There are at least three good reasons to take up meditation. These are my three. Possibly others are more important but I think these three are at the top (or near the top) of many people’s  list.

1. It is a good habit
Undoubtedly we form habits. These habits could be loose ones or they could be tight ones. Either way time marches on. If you are going to form habits they might as well be good habits. Meditating on a daily basis at a regular time is not better habit.

2. Awareness of the body and mind 
One thing we least have is an awareness of the body, moreover an awareness of the mind. Meditation brings about a high awareness of both. In meditation we focus on breathing and concentration to bring about mindfulness. To know the body is also to know the mind.

3. Control of the body and mind
By having an awareness of the body and mind we have can have control of the body and mind. You cannot control what you are not aware of.

What are your reasons for taking up meditation? Please leave a comment below for I would love to hear your opinions. 

sick poetry

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literally
i am a figure
doubled over but
steering metaphors
driving porcelain buses

winter’s end
is always vulnerable to
birth, sickness, old-age & death
in that order. two more stops
until i get off

forty eight

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life rolls on
as the hills
over the hill over
the hump, at least

will i
be ever satisfied
with who i am or
what i have become?

or is life
supposed to be
forever a bitter
disappointment?

forty eight
is not quite fifty
too close, i would say
the fa(r)ther away the better

no running in
the other direction
but try to run
i must & i do

because fifty
is too close
to a conveniently
imagined halfway

 

atheist become

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released from
some kind of burden
you are light as air
& heavy as clouds

god did not leave –
not there to begin with
as they would
like you to believe

the world is yours now
but nothing will free you
from death and
to nowhere will you go

morning phase

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pastiche pastel hue
of cycle
time rolling like waves
across your ocean
breaks in the light
up in the air
three sunbirds
a blue moon &
a drum for a heart
beckons me

What and how do I know?

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To know is to have a knower and things to know. Therefore, it entails space, objects, time and consciousness. Existence of things does not infer that there is a god or creator, only the state of affairs is such. For sense-tools to come into existence must mean the knower’s object-self is a priori, and has an “understanding”, that is, assumes the existence of space/object-time.