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> 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 dif
by 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.