Emerson: “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
Is the inverse true or false?
A mind once contracted by a major crisis,* never returns to its original dimensions.
* ‘crisis’ seems like natural inverse, as in crisis of faith/meaning
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योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः Yoga is the restraint of mental modifications.
Been reading Yogasutras for almost a year now and the entire book is a long argument to explore the falsity of the inverse.
For plants, the inverse is true. For humans, the inverse is false.
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If the goal of meditation is stasis, it’s evil. Stasis is the enemy of innovation and growth in knowledge, which is where life comes from and needs to solve.
Anyway, I think that, say a silent meditation retreat actually strives for the opposite of restraint.
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Most of the research on trauma I've seen would indicate that it's both yes and no.
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The inverse is more fuzzy because it's feasible to stretch it back again, although won't return to original dimensions.
But once stretched no going back unless memory loss.
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The inverse is true *and* some: a crisis of faith/meaning leads better ideas and deeper meaning/faith. A tree that isn’t pruned will bear lots of low quality fruit and make the tree less healthy than one that’s pruned (literally “hurt”). Nature is antifragile. We are too.
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