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It’s a common enough effect that it should be noted. Many spiritual people end up being detached from the world, for better or worse.
by avindroth 5y ago
It’s a common enough effect that it should be noted. Many spiritual people end up being detached from the world, for better or worse.
- subpixel 5y agoDetachment is a tenet of Buddhism, not an effect of meditation.
- nerdponx 5y agoThere are plenty of ways to meditate without adhering to Buddist belief and practice.
- avindroth 5y agoSo no part of buddhism is about healthy re-integration into society? That seems troubling.
- zozbot234 5y agoCertainly not in the sense of "overlooking anything else in your life". Moral living is a key component of successful dharmic/meditative practice according to Buddhist and other teachings.
- saulpw 5y agoNote that the tenet of Buddhism is non-attachment, not detachment. They are different.
- astrange 5y agoTraditional sutric Buddhism was definitely about detachment (or “renunciation”); you’re supposed to never have sex and if you’re eating food you should imagine it’s a rotting corpse so you won’t end up enjoying it. The presentation of Buddhism as chill and peaceful and all about meditation is a modernization to keep it alive after the white people found it.
- zozbot234 5y ago> you’re supposed to never have sex and if you’re eating food you should imagine it’s a rotting corpse so you won’t end up enjoying it. Possibly as an instrumental practice on the way to full buddhahood (and that would come after even the very advanced stage of arahantship, which basically means guaranteed complete enlightenment after your lifetime!). Surely not as mere penance or mortification of the flesh shorn of any contemplative practice, because that was very clearly criticized by the Buddha as misleading and useless when the Hinduists were doing it. (Then again, IIRC, the Stoics talk about doing something very similar. The idea itself would not have been unfamiliar in the West.)