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Prayer beats meditation because it is active. It forces you to face up to your life, not simply let it wash past you. It makes you speak your desires, and own your failures. Passively sitting around hoping for change sounds like avoidance, to me.

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雲水

@foodofthegods3

Mar 12, 2021

Who says meditation includes "hoping for change"? Does prayer not include "hope for change"―and how is it any more dynamic or active in achieving this change? Besides imagining that you're achieving something, of course. Your perception of meditation seems quite shallow.

Jazmine Giovanni

@jazminegiovanni

Mar 12, 2021

One might argue that meditation is so active in attending to the ever-present reality that most people are exhausted by it and choose to remain in the lull of distraction.

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Oh yes, that would make sense. Perhaps it is easier to direct consciousness through the mental filter of 'God' in a prayer rather than facing the raw, unfiltered reality in deep meditation. But then again, what's the fundamental difference between that and God?

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