Meditation gone wronghttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1242491649197891584 …
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@_awbery_ has written about this with more specific reference to meditation methods, e.g. in these posts: https://vajrayananow.com/2019/04/10/not-all-buddhism-is-about-liberation-from-suffering/ … https://vajrayananow.com/2019/04/06/the-limited%E2%80%8B-language-of-the-no-self/ … https://vajrayananow.com/2019/04/19/the-structure-of-buddhism/ …https://vajrayananow.com/2019/04/15/living-contradictions/ … -
The meditation methods that are mainly taught now derive from one invented a hundred years ago by Mahasi Sayadaw, who was an extreme ascetic. The fact that he designed it to induce something close to catatonic apathy has been systematically obscured.https://vividness.live/2011/07/07/theravada-reinvents-meditation/ …
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In my meditative exercises, I aim for ¾ detached measurement & ¼ curiosity. I call it the Mt. Rushmore method, after Presidents Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln, all whose original profession was surveyor + 1 explorer (Teddy)pic.twitter.com/pPgLyqUlbb
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As I scan my life's metaphorical plots of land, I map both their boundaries and obstacles within them. At first, I just guestimate the size: Like rocks & buried roots, smaller obstacles can be removed sooner or later. Larger ones I note, are best avoided by the plow.
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