But imagining oneself from a third perspective has a therapeutic effect that you can't really explain in words. You just do it and it's deeply soothing somehow.
Meditation as a form of relaxing is practicing Samatha, and meditation to see things as they are is Vipassana. in reality both work in tandem, but Vipassana is the goal. (Vipassana is Buddha's innovation here - meditation in other religions is more like Samatha)
The main thing is that learning about the true nature of things at an intellectual level isn't enough in Buddhism. It's, like.. there are parts of your mind that are unaffected by what you learn intellectually, you need to actually experience things yourself to influence your unconscious mind
Thanks, that's one of the masks I use! Unlike the GVS SPM587 it has a quick release thing so you can get to your hydration for water and microplastics :/
Swift Package Manager handles Swift, ObjC, C, C++ in the same project, code completion works just fine. Overall much nicer than in other ecosystems.