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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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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Sure. Would be difficult to motivate myself to just repeat a pair of words.
Although, frankly speaking, Vajrayana mantras will also feel tedious at first. It takes time to really get into it. It took me ~200 000 recitations to really get attuned when I started.
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There are a bunch of practices where the two are combined in various ways, which can be fun (&helpful).
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