“mindfulness oversimplifies the difficult business of understanding oneself” This was a great, thought-provoking article.
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It’s a part of Hinduism and needs Vedic theology to make sense of it
It’s likely to cause psychological poisoning insteadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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As someone who meditates regularly, I admit that I've come to be relatively convinced of the idea of "psychodynamic forces", but I don't agree that it is irreconcilable with the belief in the self.
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While meditating on this essay, I pictured the psyche as a bottle, consisting of many different creatures trying to dominate and escape. What gets out manifests as our actions, and the bottleneck is our capacity of reflection, of free will; our selves.
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Mindfulness probably existed before religion, the basic result is to gain space between stimulus and reaction, which gives people the freedom of choice and more awareness. This ‘self’ discussion is a buddhists/exbuddhist issue.
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Jan Kabit Zinn used a buddhist base for his training and its popluar so we get these discussion, if he would have used aristotle we would have a different issue. Further there is no disassociation when you are mindfully observing, disassociation ignores everything, autopilot
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