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The Onion nailed the West's current interest in yoga twenty years ago[0], and it's only gotten worse. It's amazing how much money you can make as long as you d
by tacon 8y ago
The Onion nailed the West's current interest in yoga twenty years ago[0], and it's only gotten worse. It's amazing how much money you can make as long as you divorce religion and spirituality from a practice optimized over a thousand years by religious and spiritual experts. Sort of like having an amazing search light but not the slightest idea where to point it or what we are searching for would look like.
[0] https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-1819563855 https://www.theonion.com/monk-gloats-over-yoga-championship-...
- d0lph 8y agoI'm not really interested in buddhism, but have practiced meditation. I have to say meditation itself brings a great calmness, especially for my anxiety, and I was quite skeptical when it was recommended. I think meditation should be examined outside of the scope of eastern mysticism, it need not be associated with it.
- titzer 8y ago> I think meditation should be examined outside of the scope of eastern mysticism, it need not be associated with it. While there is always an airy of "hoaky mysticism" to most religions, one possible self-consistent explanation is that that this "hoaky mysticism" of eastern religions might in fact be the logical consequence of thousands of hours, days, weeks, months, years, of meditation. Maybe western self improvement is just in fact a precursor to a precursor to the final enlightenment that hey, none of this self-improvement shit matters?
- Bakary 8y ago>Maybe western self improvement is just in fact a precursor to a precursor to the final enlightenment that hey, none of this self-improvement shit matters? These are hardly new concepts in the West. It's even in Ecclesiastes.