I find this sad. I agree that those who proselytize momentary distraction from life as the key to happiness tend to cause your very situation. The key to medi

I find this sad. I agree that those who proselytize momentary distraction from life as the key to happiness tend to cause your very situation. The key to meditation as a skill is to learn to control your mind and attention so that you aren't caught by difficulties. When difficulties become ... more difficult, it becomes more challenging. What "modern" meditation does wrong, is it does not prepare you for the assaults that come with a truly challenging situation. Mindfulness probably addresses resisting hedonistic things, but Stoicism and others are much better for walking through life's challenges. Pick up Meditations or Obstacle is the Way or Warrior Mindset. The last is a quantitative manual for training yourself to handle stress, written by combat fighters.