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I think you're describing New-Age cultists and not serious, pragmatic Buddhists, for example. Calmness is not enforced, passion can and does arise, but one is n

I think you're describing New-Age cultists and not serious, pragmatic Buddhists, for example. Calmness is not enforced, passion can and does arise, but one is not attached to calmness nor passion. They simply come and go. This is meditation.

tripzilch 10y ago
You can even do meditation properly without buying into Buddhism. Although you're not going to avoid running into it entirely, so at some point you'll find someone talking to you about silly religious stuff like "prevent suffering to all living beings, animal, plant and mineral" :-) (even though the "prevent suffering" idea has some real interesting and beautiful implications, when they add "and mineral", it's like they played too much 20-questions or something)