A long time ago I read about how to refer to a woman who hadn’t experienced an orgasm. She wasn’t “non-orgasmic,” she was merely “pre-orgasmic.”
The implication being that the pre-orgasmic woman can, at some point, have one through practice and the right setting.
Sex and meditation are different, but are there any overlaps? Through meditation some people experience heightened sensory states while others just experience an awareness of their thoughts and feelings. So I starting wondering if the second group of meditators might be thought of as meditative version of a pre-orgasmic woman? Maybe with enough time and practice will the big wow, altered states happen?
In meditation, I don’t know if the euphoric sensations are vital, because reaching beneficial altered traits is lasting and more important the temporary altered states.
If a pre-orgasmic woman never had an orgasm before she died but she actually enjoyed sex and felt bonded with her partner, would she have had an unfulfilled life? What’s more important, headlines or trend lines?
Meditation is more often underwhelming because, for me, it’s mostly a sub-perceptual result, but one that accumulates.
You’ll rarely know what states a meditator reaches because the outcome is internal and personal.
Over the past 2,500 years, Buddhists and others have charted many common mile markers for the inner lives of meditators. But the only real way to verify these altered states and traits is by monitoring a meditator’s brainwaves in a lab.
I don’t know what Steve Jobs level of meditative attainment was, but he said this, “If you just sit and observe, you’ll see how restless your mind is… over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before.”