Mi'sen

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?

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.

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.)

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.

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.)

Me. Mantras are fun. Then again, my yidam is a beautiful woman. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)