"Beware of wisdom that is not earned" - Carl Jung
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Replying to @Triquetrea
Haha, yes! Or, reading a thousand books about meditation while doing very little meditation. Just because someone can eloquently formulate other people's ideas, does not make them wise.
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Replying to @euvieivanova @Triquetrea
Agreed: there is no substitute for practice. The benefits of meditation simply can't be understood without *doing*.
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Or, rather, *not doing*
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Replying to @orchidslantern @euvieivanova
It's funny how many people think they're qualified because they can discuss canon academically (if they understand it is another matter.) Makes you wonder if these same people would consider themselves Chess grandmasters because they remember lots of tournament sets.
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Replying to @Triquetrea @orchidslantern
Also funny when people ask me where I read about something I said, and I reply with "uhh, I just meditated a shit ton" and they give me a weird look, like they can't imagine knowing ones own mind from the inside.
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Replying to @euvieivanova @orchidslantern
There seems to be a lot of spite and enviousness in the - I won't call it a community - group of meditators communicating on Twitter. Further, lots of people wanting to insert their own religious narratives into everyone else's contemplative experiences, whether relevant or not.
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Replying to @Triquetrea @orchidslantern
"Oh, but Swami Salami said XYZ, which contradicts your contemplative experience, so you must be wrong!"
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this is why I'm still so fond of Alan Watts. "I'm not a teacher. I have nothing to tell you. I have no system to teach you. Just relax and do what comes naturally."
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