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Honestly, it can be depressing and confusing. I equate it to being in the mind of a therapist. You're there in the moment, but you're not really there in the m
by balabaster 8y ago
Honestly, it can be depressing and confusing.
I equate it to being in the mind of a therapist. You're there in the moment, but you're not really there in the moment. You're watching people, thinking about who they are and why they are the way they are, observing behaviour, understanding the nuance of how they interact together.
It's interesting. Fascinating even from an academic standpoint. But life isn't academic. The beauty of life can only be experienced if you let yourself experience it.
You know that scene where he wants to be put back in the Matrix because ignorance is bliss... yeah, that.
- Moodles 8y agoThis is a very different answer to the other one. How interesting.
- cpeterso 8y agoThere is a meditation experience called the "Dark Night" where some people are overwhelmed by the dissociative "no self" feelings after meditation. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-knight-of-the-souls/372766/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-...
- monktastic1 8y ago> Honestly, it can be depressing and confusing. ... The beauty of life can only be experienced if you let yourself experience it. It sounds like your state differs in some key ways from what the Buddhists are aiming for. Nirvana isn't meant to be clinical, depressing, or confusing.
- balabaster 8y agoThe funny thing about emotions is that they don’t really care what is "meant to be."
- monktastic1 8y agoI agree, but don't understand how this connects to our conversation. All I mean is that there are many interesting and profound states that one can achieve through meditation (or other means), the vast majority of which are not nirvana -- though they may seem to share some surface similarities when described in rough English.
- balabaster 8y agoAgreed, sorry, I wasn't meaning to appear to disagree with your statement, rather more suggesting that feelings don't tend to care about any intentional outcome, only what is.