Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' Archived Message
Posted by Gerard on March 26, 2021, 7:06 pm, in reply to "Re: O/T - Harpers: 'Lost in Thought: The psychological risks of meditation' "
"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." Balance...yes human nature is to be tempted by material attachments..but not having those attachments is not a torture to be inflicted but a reality to be truly lived....those mired in institutionalised (and therefore politicised), religion see spiritual practice as being; physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually ascetic..but again this is the result of turning religion into a system of government when what people need is to be able to govern themselves..
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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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