Looking forward to debating this point with you in 3D Real-Time in early June! #TheGathering
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What is the essence of your point?
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Which makes me think that you're a wizard, building an army of rational meditators!!!
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Here's a question: is it coherent to believe in egolessness and rationality?
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it's not rational to believe in rationality
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It's irrational to believe, period.
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Well you have to believe something, even if it's just non-contradiction. Didn't Godel prove that?
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You can provisionally use it as a working axiom. Doesn’t have to be believed as somehow true, real, or actual.
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For meditation to work, a particular system of faith/belief in "something more" is key and does not need empirical evidence to be effective.
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I agree that empirical evidence is not necessary. However I strongly disagree that a faith is key.
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You obviously know what you speak of, and I am by no means pretending to be certain of knowing some absolute truth here... More wondering...
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If meditation is about finding meaning, does it not start out with a certain trust that there is more to the life that one is living now?
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Rephrase: A belief that "waking up" through meditation reveals bad as not so bad, good as better, in short more purpose. Is that not faith?
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