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I have been meditating for sometime now however lately I have been thinking that this is one more attempt at managing the stress of daily life. Its not the cure
by cryptozeus 7y ago
I have been meditating for sometime now however lately I have been thinking that this is one more attempt at managing the stress of daily life. Its not the cure and definitely does not help in finding out why we need to do this to begin with.
- whiddershins 7y agoI might argue that it is precisely a route to figuring out why we need to do this to begin with. This notion that somehow all this suffering and stress is generated by external factors is a trap, in my experience.
- cryptozeus 7y agoI didn’t mean that all our troubles are based on external factors but it does impact our day to day.
- RugnirViking 7y agoI think the thing is that in our past lives we had a lot more time to do nothing. Have you ever sat and stared into a fire for an extended period of time? These kinds of calm moments of reflection happened far more often in times gone past, especially for tens of thousands of years before significant we developed civilisation. Presumably because this time was abuntantly available, evolution found ways to do some kind of bookkeeping that is very important for our survival, in a similar manner to why sleep is important. This is of course speculation, but in the absence of definative research about the human brain, which is a ways off just yet, this is almost the best we have.