Reduce your likelihood of being hit by a car (when compared to activities such as walking across a street, assuming you are not meditating in said street)
Increase the odds of becoming an insufferable douchebag who tells people all about how meditation has changed their life
From a pure math point of view with some assumptions about X being greater than zero, sure. There is an upper limit to the value of thinking about a thing though and it’s somewhere between “thoughtful consideration” and “huffing my own farts in lotus position for 12 hours a day”.
I like your fire.
Have you ever directed your attention at a thing? Or concentrated?
Of course you have. It’s a great trick. You might even call it indispensable.
Well imagine if you could take it further.
And imagine if there was another trick.
I can imagine a lot of things. That doesn’t make those things real or meaningful.
Well if X has value then 2X probably has double the value. Does that make sense?
From a pure math point of view with some assumptions about X being greater than zero, sure. There is an upper limit to the value of thinking about a thing though and it’s somewhere between “thoughtful consideration” and “huffing my own farts in lotus position for 12 hours a day”.
“thinking about a thing” isn’t how you meditate.
See, your conclusion is based upon a false assumption.
Would you please provide your definition of “meditate”?
Edit: Merriam-Webster entry for reference so I’m not asking you to do all the work here.
Destroying your thesis is sufficient. For now I will simply let your uncertainty fester.
K.