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Perhaps they want to and need to quiet their minds a little? When I see people express those views, I see them expressing a need. If you've come to a more relaxed attitude, then you may already have sufficient quietness to use a less forceful method.

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Bingo. When I got into magic, back in the day, I got into something about two steps away from the worst and most vile version of those practices. Incidentally, I was kind of a whimp at the time. It served a need.

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I hear you my friend. The caesura or the boundary that separates a practice or a retreat from "ordinary life" is both necessary (at first) and a barrier that can be dissolved in integration when the time is ripe.

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That fits perfectly. We can talk to almost any person about techniques to calm the mind. But if we say to a person with no relation to these matters to "just be!" or "self-liberate!" it will not make any sense to them.

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Absolutely. A long-standing vice of mine to get really upset about people insisting on doing just that. Glad it doesn't bother me much anymore. It's still stupid, though.

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which is?

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Both. Getting upset about this sort of platitude-mongering (sans aggravating context, at least), and the act itself.

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Just going around being upset about things without doing something about them is a problem I'm slowly learning not to have. Feeling compelled to do something when someone is doing something I see as bad, and I can meaningfully oppose, is a problem I'm trying to have more often

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I suspect that for me, suppression of the latter, on the part of parents and other not-always-caregivers, is a root cause of the former. For me, and for very many other people. It's a tough world to live in, sometimes. Worse if you're told not to act how you feel you should.

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