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>gym-rats used to hard training and daily discipline have much better start with meditation than people like me who are overthinking and analyzing this right h
by sargossamaru 7y ago
>gym-rats used to hard training and daily discipline have much better start with meditation than people like me who are overthinking and analyzing
this right here is a good summation of why buddhism is just a cult of advanced physiology, those 'too much in their own head' and the truly mentally ill never do well in it. Buddhists like Alan Wallace insist this is a condition of fortunate conditions of karmic rebirth, in which those who have both social access to the Buddha's teaching and the neural complexity and health to integrate it successfully are in a 'Higher' rebirth caste than others.
- nabla9 7y agoI disagree. There are certainly some people who can't do it, but most people can. The most common reason why people can't do it is exactly the same reason why people start physical exercise, or start eating healthier or any self improvement and then fail: problem in self regulation and the ability to maintain routine. Big part of monastic type training and retreats is just fixing this very thing. The group and the routine comes from outside, you can do it.