Longing to read a meditation book where the author doesn't spend a fourth of the text trying to convince me awakening == "the next step in evolution."
This is such a nauseatingly modernist, bad evolutionary biology perspective. Can you just stop?
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I completely agree! I prefer being told, in all honestly, that meditation is useless. Let there be one thing that is not for the greater good, for self-improvement, or whatever.
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This is also a strange formulation to me.
"Why do you do this?"
"Oh no reason, it's utter nonsense."
It's cute, but obscurantist.
I prefer functional formulations stripped of mythology.
"Why do you do this?"
"It helps me get better at doing what I want."
(Or whatever.)
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I see where you're coming from. I can't quite explain it but I find great comfort in doing something for its own sake. "Why do you play the piano?" I'm sure it's great for my brain or something, but I do it because I like it. It has meaning but I can't explain it.
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This is an excellent answer! And I think some forms of meditation fit such a formulation neatly, while others are more workmanlike.
(Who sits on a mat for an hour reciting mantras for fun? - or maybe I am being myopic here.)
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Yes, some people are in contest with themselves about how long they can sit still and call it meditation. I think meditation is all about being present with whatever is, which isn't necessarily fun, but very fulfilling. After all you can't really escape what is anyway 😁
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Effortless mindfulness is indeed fulfilling, but meditation isn't just one thing!
It's sort of unfortunate how the same name is used for literally hundreds of discrete techniques and practices, though.
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Me. Mantras are fun. Then again, my yidam is a beautiful woman. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Yeah, but you Vajrayana people do all sorts of visualizations and stuff as well!
If I do mantras, it's some basic shit like "clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds..."
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