{"id":14119,"date":"2026-05-21T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14119"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:05:25","slug":"suggestions-on-how-to-meditate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/suggestions-on-how-to-meditate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Suggestions on How to Meditate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A <em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/suggestions-on-how-to-meditate?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web\">follow-up<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/meditation-what-and-why?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">Meditation: What and Why<\/a> in response to Tom Carroll&#8217;s query.\u00a0 And then we&#8217;ll &#8216;swim the Ganges.&#8217; But I might not get to the Ganges tomorrow since I&#8217;ll be heading to the shooting range.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The neo-Kantian German philosopher <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugen_Herrigel\">Eugen Herrigel<\/a> wrote a book entitled <em>Zen in the Art of Archery.<\/em>\u00a0 Tomorrow I will practice Zen and the Art of Handgunnery. Can you trigger an explosion a couple of inches from your face without flinching or moving the gun, with equanimity and detachment from the outcome, hitting a bulls-eye eleven yards off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Substack follow-up to Meditation: What and Why in response to Tom Carroll&#8217;s query.\u00a0 And then we&#8217;ll &#8216;swim the Ganges.&#8217; But I might not get to the Ganges tomorrow since I&#8217;ll be heading to the shooting range. The neo-Kantian German philosopher Eugen Herrigel wrote a book entitled Zen in the Art of Archery.\u00a0 Tomorrow I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/suggestions-on-how-to-meditate-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suggestions on How to Meditate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation","category-spiritual-exercises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14120,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14119\/revisions\/14120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}