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>Many things that are worth doing and give meaning to life are not safe. That sounds wrong to me, meditation is supposed to destroy all meanings of life, not t
by mapcars 5y ago
>Many things that are worth doing and give meaning to life are not safe.
That sounds wrong to me, meditation is supposed to destroy all meanings of life, not to give anything. Also doing or not doing anything at all is not safe. There is no safety - once we are alive we will die.
- nabla9 5y ago> meditation is supposed to destroy all meanings of life, not to give anything Those are all metaphors to describe something "Die before you die so you don't' have to die before you die", "See your true face before you were born", "enlightenment", "entering the stream of holy", "satori", "be one with everything", "be nothing", "emptiness". None of those descriptions will help you understand. You either meditate or not. Then you can describe what happens to you in your own words contradicting everybody else. "Well, there is sitting meditation, there is walking meditation. Oh, and then, of course, especially in the West, there is talking meditation. No good."
- mapcars 5y agoSure, my point is that losing meanings in the process can be quite crushing experience or liberating depending on one's attitude.
- beprogrammed 5y agoHe was born, succeeded in living a meaningless life, and died.