Why is meditation?

[Cramulus]

wait wait wait, I thought a meditation was a guy who holds seances and uses a Ouija board to talk to spirits

[Faust]

This threads getting too scary...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This thread is improving my morning.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ecremeditation is the only PROPER form of meditation.  It occurs when you realize that:

1.  You forgot to bring a book into the bathroom.
2.  You forgot to check the toilet paper supply, and you're all alone in the house.

[Salty]

Meditation are those sweet little oranges my mom put in my shoes on Christmas, along with chocolates and a handful of nuts.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Meditation are those sweet little oranges my mom put in my shoes on Christmas, along with chocolates and a handful of nuts.

OMG I love meditation cake.

[Salty]

Meditation are those sweet little oranges my mom put in my shoes on Christmas, along with chocolates and a handful of nuts.

OMG I love meditation cake.

Ooh, with a nice rinzai glaze.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Meditation is something that you use more of as you age, and different varieties.

You go to the doctor, he finds something else on you broke, so he prescribes you more meditation.

Meditation sometimes has certain sexual side effects. Most people hope for super penis powers, but that's usually not what is meant, from what I hear.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I was just wondering if any of you relatively intelligent yet curious-minded people...

[Pæs]

Meditation is the period discharge of blood and mucosal tissue from the uterus and vagina. Women typically stop meditating if they conceive or if they are breastfeeding.

[Pæs]

Meditation is the practice of managing discussion on an online forum.

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I was just wondering if any of you relatively intelligent yet curious-minded people had any theories on why meditation is possible, how it works or how we came to have such a capacity?

Perhaps it's a kind of base level state of awareness that all animals have, and we just don't exist in that mode very often because contemporary life demands a ton of conscious, frontal-lobe action. Something something apes coping with self-reflection...

Why does it have the benefits it does?

I think meditation allows some biological processes to function that normally only occurs during sleep.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I was just wondering if any of you relatively intelligent yet curious-minded people had any theories on why meditation is possible, how it works or how we came to have such a capacity?

Perhaps it's a kind of base level state of awareness that all animals have, and we just don't exist in that mode very often because contemporary life demands a ton of conscious, frontal-lobe action. Something something apes coping with self-reflection...

Why does it have the benefits it does?

I think meditation allows some biological processes to function that normally only occurs during sleep.

Bullshit! Meditation is the act of trappping loose quantums, with your mind and using them to actualize potentialities that only existed in a parallel manifestation of universal existence

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Nah, meditation is that thing where you're walking down the medition of a busy highway and trying not to get smushed. They made a game out of that and called it 'Frogger'.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

It's mediBAtion and it makes you BLIND.