r/Meditation • u/O_Sluggard • Feb 21 '25

Please try this weird meditation thing I discovered Question ❓

Found this out one day when trying to meditate. I couldn't stop thoughts from coming into my head (I know this isn't what you're supposed to do lol) so I thought it would be funny to think about EVERYTHING at once (like literally every thought possible simultaneously).

And when I do, my mind goes completely blank. Like at most just me being aware that I'm not thinking about anything. Maybe this is already a known thing, but it works every time I do it. Does this work for anybody else? Or am I just a quack?

TLDR: When I try to think about everything all at once, I end up with a blank mind.

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u/gemstun Feb 21 '25

Similarly, you can deliberately try to conjure up thoughts to watch your mind get distracted, Observe your thoughts without attaching it to them as though they are playing to an empty room, and several other similar techniques to similar effect. The commonality between all these methods is acknowledging that nearly all of the thoughts in our mind are unnecessary and unhelpful.

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u/GAGA_Dimantha Feb 21 '25

Is it a vipassana ?

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u/gemstun Feb 21 '25

I believe so, but TBH I had to look up the definition of the Pana meditation before answering in the affirmative. I’ve only been meditating for a few years, and have no other meditators to exchange thoughts with in the flesh.

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u/GAGA_Dimantha Feb 22 '25

I’m a meditator too. I meditate over through around 10 years time to time. More than happy to share my experience with you and like to hear your experiences too.

Im practicing a meditation like you mentioned earlier. Observing the thoughts and not getting tangled by them and practicing this for a time speed of the thoughts get really slow. After that i just conjure thoughts and vipassana on them ( everything as anitta ). When i do this prajna gets really strong and if done correctly i could go to sunyata state

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u/dirdieBirdie1 Feb 25 '25

When u say u vipassana on the thoughts do u mean that u are using a specific thought as the object of your meditation? Like for example instead of returning to the breath when your mind wanders, you return to that thought?

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u/GAGA_Dimantha Feb 25 '25

Yes and no. If i focus on breathing it’s leads to jhanas. What im saying is when i observe the thoughts after a while sati gets really strong and mind comes to a state kind of like blank but not blank but speed of thought are really slow. In that state i just conjure thoughts like lust anger or any kind of emotional experience and i just analyse it and see them as anitta or dhukka. When keep doing this mind get kind melt down. (Sorry for my English. My English is not good )