Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on March 25, 2021, 11:22 pm, in reply to "Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' "
Thanks for the comments all, afraid I'm not really knowledgeable enough on the subject to add more or dispute any of the points that have been raised. With 'body- and world-hatred' I was jumping off from the David McMahon depiction of Buddhism from the paragraph quoted above beginning 'The Buddhist ascetics'. I don't know how accurate that viewpoint is, or whether it draws from Schopenhauer or not. I will say that it fits with what I've read from civilisation-critical writers who point to the similarities of the major religions in viewing the physical earth as a place of suffering to be escaped from or transcended, and that humans are irrevocably flawed and/or sinful and must ascend from the dirt & the slime to discover our true nature as disembodied souls or pure energy etc. Only people pitted in a war against the living world, and simultaneously against their own spontaneous instincts & desires could begin to think that way. But maybe this view is too generalised and there are elements even in civ religions which can lead away from this nightmare of self-loathing and disgust towards physical reality. cheers, I
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- O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' - Ian M March 24, 2021, 12:53 pm
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- Perhaps there are similar patterns as amongst the modern hikikomori?. - Ken Waldron March 25, 2021, 11:34 pm
- It can make you go blind. Nm - Shyaku March 26, 2021, 12:03 pm
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