Observational Piece #3 – What is Meditative Writing?

I wrote this during class, and although it isn’t exactly right in terms of how I should be writing these pieces, I wanted to post it anyways, as it allowed me to delve deeper into my own understanding for future tasks. For that reason, I have chosen not to edit it or add to it in any way, as I think it’s valuable to present my learning process in this form.

Forcing meditative writing like this seems like a backwards concept to me. I’m sitting here, reaching for some vague memory of a ‘purely meditative’ event from the past week or so to explore, only to come up empty. Is this a problem? Perhaps my understanding of meditative thinking (or observations, rather) if flawed. My approach to it is different than the norm.

I think I see meditative observations as those that are spurred by the human and natural observations. Cause and effect and whatnot. I can look at how a person I know behaves and compare that to my own actions and reflect on how I present myself to the outside world, but that inwards observation occurred purely through the human element that existed.

I find myself being less convinced of this train of thought the more I write. The act of drawing out these words from my hesitant and indecisive mind has made it clearer. I think I’ve just had a mental battle with myself and changed my own outlook on something without the influence of anything else, only through this deeper form of reflection of thoughts I would not vocalise otherwise. I’m going to write about something else now.

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I was raised as a lover of films, becoming enamoured with worlds presented on the silver screen in 'Star Wars' and 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' before I had even entered Kindergarten. This is what first got me interested in pursuing media studies, but I hope to expand my knowledge beyond film through what RMIT can teach me.

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