{"id":9181,"date":"2012-12-01T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/01\/the-minds-centrifugal-tendency\/"},"modified":"2012-12-01T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T11:24:07","slug":"the-minds-centrifugal-tendency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/01\/the-minds-centrifugal-tendency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mind&#8217;s Centrifugal Tendency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Meditation is a battle against the mind&#39;s centrifugal tendency.&#0160; In virtue of its intentionality, mind is ever in flight from its center, so much so that many have denied that there is a center or a self.&#0160; The aim of meditation is centering.&#0160; To switch metaphors, the aim is to swim upstream to the thought-free source of thoughts.&#0160; Compare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaturepage.com\/read\/emersonessays1-133.html\" target=\"_self\">Emerson<\/a>: &quot;Man is a stream whose source is hidden.&quot;&#0160; Could there be a stream without a source?&#0160; A wind blowing towards objects (Sartre) that blew from no direction and for no cause?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Changing metaphors once again: you say you like riding the wild horse of the mind into dispersal and diremption?&#0160; Then do so, and see where it gets you.&#0160; If self-loss in the manifold proves to be unsatisfactory, you may be a candidate for re-collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"zemanta-related\">\n<legend class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/legend>\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"list-style: none; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px; padding: 0px; width: 84px; text-align: left; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: top; float: left; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/06\/mass-media-and-spiritual-deterioration.html\" style=\"padding: 2px; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none; display: block; box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999;\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.zemanta.com\/95402008_80_80.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; width: 80px; display: block; max-width: 100%;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2012\/06\/mass-media-and-spiritual-deterioration.html\" style=\"padding: 5px 2px 0px; height: 80px; line-height: 12pt; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; display: block;\" target=\"_blank\">Mass Media and Spiritual Deterioration<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meditation is a battle against the mind&#39;s centrifugal tendency.&#0160; In virtue of its intentionality, mind is ever in flight from its center, so much so that many have denied that there is a center or a self.&#0160; The aim of meditation is centering.&#0160; To switch metaphors, the aim is to swim upstream to the thought-free &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/01\/the-minds-centrifugal-tendency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mind&#8217;s Centrifugal Tendency&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9181","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\/9181","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=9181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}