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Sam Harris kinda does this in his guided meditations. At times he asks you to sit in a noisy public place. His aim seems to be to to try to get you to quickly turn your attention on the thing that is currently doing the noticing. The point being a realization that there’s nothing there when you try to turn your attention to it. And that’s supposed to produce some kind of realization. Never worked for me in practice.

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I believe there is an exercise benefit to meditation in noisy environments, as one form of practice. Swamy Vivekananda preferred meditating in a room with loud street noise in his youth.

I used to have a coworker who would work while listening to stuff like Aphex Twin specifically to exercise his ability to focus. Personally my programming output would suffer but I think there's something to the exercise.

Same here. I have been trying to understand this practice for years and have never succeeded. Maybe someday it will click.

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