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nice obelisk idiot posted:I meant more like how deeply people can hurt. or how arrogance is a deep fundamental defense mechanism that I struggle with often, as displayed by some of my posting. i kinda dug a hole for myself with this derail tbh. I think those sort of realisations can coincide in time with someone getting interested in meditation, and would happen anyway as a natural byproduct of the same questioning of ones life in general that leads them to start meditating. Then meditation gets the credit because that's what people expect the result of meditation to be. But really people start meditating when they're already in a period of self-reflection.. Correlation not causation. Like if someone went to somewhere distraction-free it would have the same effect of greater access to memories and more space to think that a silent retreat would, and the much vaulted meditation technique is essentially just you know.. the psychological equivalent of hand-waving and a reason to ask for donations (and allegiance to the teacher, free promotion of the teacher/school/sect/religious ideology, endless unpaid volunteering work etc etc). e: In my opinion all the low-calorie diet, breath meditation, sleep deprivation, chanting being played over loudspeakers really does is make you more amenable to the new map of reality the 'teacher' repeatedly insists that you will see, rather than being some magical formula to mystically root out 'mental defilements' Minotaurus Rex fucked around with this message at 08:36 on Apr 9, 2024 |
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Yeah, I actually do enjoy meditation as a grounding, processing and relaxation exercise, but pretending it delivers the answers of the universe is no more wishful thinking than obliging yourself every Sunday to kneel will allow you to channel a version of the Abrahamic God.
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syntaxfunction posted:Yeah, I actually do enjoy meditation as a grounding, processing and relaxation exercise, but pretending it delivers the answers of the universe is no more wishful thinking than obliging yourself every Sunday to kneel will allow you to channel a version of the Abrahamic God. As if most Christians actually attend church.
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all i learned from meditation was how to do kegels any time, any place super useful for being a better gently caress, but im not sure that helps with the whole existence is suffering thing
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Apr 9, 2024 12:53
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lol dawg how can meditation “really gently caress you up” haha
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Apr 9, 2024 13:03
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*downward dogs, coquettishly* gently caress me up fam!
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How can essentially being hypnotised into believing that life is literally nothing but an endless kaleidoscope of meaningless suffering that extends far beyond this life into limitless other lives that you will in some way experience, unless you do pretty much the most difficult task a human can possibly achieve and attain enlightenment, mess with your head? Also the intensive meditation retreats can sometimes trigger psychosis and other mental health challenges. There's a list of symptoms people have reported from intensive meditation at this charity which helps people with meditation-induced mental health crises https://www.cheetahhouse.org/symptoms
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I just died and damned if LSBB wasn't right. There's a lot of freaking paperwork.
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Apr 9, 2024 14:54
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You have a center, the Earth has a center, the Sun has a center, the Galaxy has a center.... Find your center, and then find your center in relation to other centers.... You will find
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Turns out you don't have a soul until you turn 5 or 6 so toddlers and pre-K are inherently easier for ghosts to possess
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Froghammer posted:Turns out you don't have a soul until you turn 5 or 6 so toddlers and pre-K are inherently easier for ghosts to possess This is the most believable thing in the thread so far.
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nice obelisk idiot posted:there was some stuff physically locked up in me Sounds like you should have gone to a locksmith first, but whatevs.
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What happens to our eternally reincarnating souls after the heat death of the universe? We all just floatin' around the infinite void of absolute darkness for the rest of forever?
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Stunt-Puffin posted:What happens to our eternally reincarnating souls after the heat death of the universe? We all just floatin' around the infinite void of absolute darkness for the rest of forever?
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3 year olds hear stuff in conversation and repeat it and adults are credulous and have lovely memories so they forget they mentioned it around the kid my cousin was allegedly a reincarnation bc initially he walked w a limp that my great grandfather only picked up from time in a POW camp in ww2. but like, logically it seems more likely they shared biomechanics and that limp resulted from the muscles not being strong enough (ie from a baby just learning to walk and not having built up the strength yet, and muscle atrophy from malnutrition)
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Stunt-Puffin posted:What happens to our eternally reincarnating souls after the heat death of the universe? We all just floatin' around the infinite void of absolute darkness for the rest of forever? Eventually all becomes One, that then begins a new Universe.
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redshirt posted:Eventually all becomes One, that then begins a new Universe. Sucks
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Apr 9, 2024 20:20
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I'm the second coming of David Bowie
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Sucks *Shrugs You work with what you are given
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If you can't achieve nirvana by the time the universe is over then I'm pretty sure the collective consciousness is better off without you
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Merging my consciousness with the unified godhead sounds lame leave me alone.
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Can someone tell me why I got reincarnated into a depressed anxious wreck I would like to speak with the world manager please this is bullshit
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TBLALV posted:Can someone tell me why I got reincarnated into a depressed anxious wreck Karma bro, sorry.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:I always thought if they made a sequel it should be called The Other One. The Two
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Smugworth posted:I'm the second coming of David Bowie Afaik David bowie was not bald to the bone!!
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Dang It Bhabhi! posted:Merging my consciousness with the unified godhead sounds lame leave me alone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGPlc_aAk8s
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Stunt-Puffin posted:What happens to our eternally reincarnating souls after the heat death of the universe? We all just floatin' around the infinite void of absolute darkness for the rest of forever? God something something Quantum Fluctuations something about Simulation Theory and it all makes sense again.
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OMFG FURRY posted:why is the pug getting sluttier Dang It Bhabhi! posted:*downward dogs, coquettishly* 
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Aren't 3-year-olds a little too young to be reincarnated souls? I would feel uncomfortable allowing a strange adult be that near my child.
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Poohs Packin posted:If you give something like $100,000 to a Buddhist temple they will confirm that you are in fact a re-incarnated buddhist monk and that makes it totally okay for you to wear a gi everywhere and bow to asian people in public. so 2.5 Monk fees == 1 Canadian Citizenship fee (visa-by-way-of-investment)? I think I'll keep saving until I have the full 250, dual citizenship seems more useful than having someone else tell me about the godhood I already know embodies me
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The ones that are even more confusing are the ones that are like "He's the reincarnation of my dad" when the dad was alive when the kid was born. I'm sure you could shoehorn some quantum superpositioning argument into it, though. Also perplexing when they are some flavor of Christian. I hear a lot about funerals where a butterfly gets in the building or something and yup, that's definitely grandma, saying goodbye to us. Also she's in Heaven. And then I guess grandma either gets stuck in the building, dies, and dries up a couple days later or gets eaten by a bird or whatever. The Bible fucked around with this message at 00:45 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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The Hello Machine posted:Aren't 3-year-olds a little too young to be reincarnated souls? I would feel uncomfortable allowing a strange adult be that near my child. It's reincarnation, not possession. Your child is the strange adult.
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The Bible posted:The ones that are even more confusing are the ones that are like "He's the reincarnation of my dad" when the dad was alive when the kid was born. Ironic she would die the same way twice in a row
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Did lowtax get reincarnated
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Did lowtax get reincarnated Yeah he's either Aaron Carter, James Van der Beak, or Seth Meyers kid.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Did lowtax get reincarnated if he was he's probably something like a jellyfish now. dude couldn't use his spine responsibly the last time around
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My dad reincarnated as ur dad
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UR DAD
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Your dad reincarnated as me. I'm disappointed.
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