This long autobiographical article is not an indictment against Buddhism or meditation (I've been practicing both since my childhood) All the problems described in the article arise from one root. It is the commodification of meditation. It is the act of making Buddhism and Meditation Modern and Western. When there is a great potential to evolve consciousness, it also comes with a great potential to ruin everything. Nuclear Energy is the greatest source of power humans have tapped onto. But it is also the energy source that must be handled with utmost care. Little mistake and you have a Chernobyl incident and that is what this protagonist and many others experienced.
Meditation is sold as a cure for all metal troubles and some physical ones. The sale is right. the sales pitch is a glorified hype train with selective reporting. Meditation is more like a self-surgery for your soul/ghost/consciousness. There are so many ways to screw up a self surgery. That is why meditation should be handled with utmost care. You should be far more careful wit meditation than actual nukes.This isn't an exaggeration.
Few Teachings From Dhammapada
Verse 160. One Is One’s Best Saviour
Oneself is refuge of oneself,who else indeed could refuge be?By good training of oneself one gains a refuge hard to gain.
Verse 161. The Unwise Person Comes To Grief On His Own
By oneself is evil done,it’s born of self and self-produced.Evil grinds the unwise one as diamond does the hardest gem.
Verse 165. Purity, Impurity Self-Created
By oneself is evil done,by oneself defiled,by oneself it’s left undone,by self alone one purified.Purity, impurity on oneself depend,no one can purify another.
Click on the title link for the full post. I must also mention that I don't agree with the author's quote "I firmly believe our brains aren’t big enough to understand the firmament we’re in." You should not trust such claims from someone who messed up his meditation sessions. The mind can be understood. It can be figured out. It's only going to be extremely difficult. Greatness is always difficult. It doesn't mean greatness doesn't exist. Greatness is just rare
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It's funny about how you are saying meditation is being sold as this or that, my wife was all upset this morning because her meditation app wasn't working. It's funny the Buddhists teach that desire is the cause of all suffering whereas the law of attraction tells us anticipation is the cause of all joy. I guess it depends how you look at it.
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If you ever went to Tibet (or India now) to study at the feet of the Yogi, you would soon learn, through observation, that meditation is indeed very dangerous.
Many of the best go insane. Quite literally.
Fortunately the society keeps them fed, and usually, in a few years, they will work through it.
However, it is the most potent stuff.
It is the only thing that will really cure you of all your ails.
It can fix all your physical problems and your diseases.
But this requires getting to a point where you have mind over matter.
It is doable. People levitate, defying gravity. However, it is not just 30 minutes a day with some app on your phone.
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I don't agree with much of what is said at the end either. Nothing to excess. I have realized that if you reflect for yourself for some time, you will reach a great depth of thoughts, however, when you talk to other people and try to explain it to them, you will be unable, because you will have lost contact with them.
If you meditate for a long time, you lose contact with material reality, and you will be on the verge of madness. If you do the opposite, you will be in an animalistic state.
I think Nietzsche reflected a long time, his ideas may or not be accurate, yet deep.
Balance is everything.
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