From a meditation point of view, reading is all about the concentration.
You concentrate your attention upon the reading process. IE you concentrate on the sight of the words on the page, a little translation algorithm/habit in your mind, and the story evoked.
It's basically a kind of trance. Concentration narrows your perspective and makes you silent (unagitated that is). And in that silent, narrow space you perform little miracles like observing your thoughtstuff with great clarity and turning off the rest of the world.
I'm slightly addicted to LITRPG. There's some good stuff there. But that's more of a fill-in for hard scifi, my true crack. Always looking for the next Greg Egan.
You concentrate your attention upon the reading process. IE you concentrate on the sight of the words on the page, a little translation algorithm/habit in your mind, and the story evoked.
It's basically a kind of trance. Concentration narrows your perspective and makes you silent (unagitated that is). And in that silent, narrow space you perform little miracles like observing your thoughtstuff with great clarity and turning off the rest of the world.
I'm slightly addicted to LITRPG. There's some good stuff there. But that's more of a fill-in for hard scifi, my true crack. Always looking for the next Greg Egan.