Posted on 09/12/2019 5:39:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
Careful there heretic lest you get a taste of the Spanish Inquisition!
Mindfulness does tend to cut down on an organizations profits. :)
For the vast majority of people who begin mindfulness practice it becomes a technique to calm the inner comparative voice and reduce the stress and suffering caused by an undisciplined mind. This is like working out at a gym or running or doing yoga and should not interfere with or contradict anyone’s core religious teachings or practices like prayer. Many Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Muslims use contemplative practices in their daily devotions that are very similar to mindfulness meditation.
It is true that the final goal of meditation practice is liberation from the conditioned mind and a complete understanding of impermanence, suffering, and the illusion of the ego but this level requires a lifelong of deep meditation that is very difficult for ordinary working people to maintain.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
>It is true that the final goal of meditation practice is liberation from the conditioned mind and a complete >understanding of impermanence, suffering, and the illusion of the ego but this level requires a lifelong of deep >meditation that is very difficult for ordinary working people to maintain.
Correct. Zen, don’t even think about it
Not until Torquemada shows up at your door, anyway.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/do-the-right-thing/201904/the-trouble-mindfulness
They say mindfulness is not as good and is oversold. I saw a study that said mindfulness and bio feedback caused anger and stress reactions later.
Eh ...nah. Mindfulness is a great way to slow down and breathe and stop panicking over every little last thought. AT any rate, it would prepare you to center yourself in preparation for prayer. Much ado about nothing here.
If a Buddhist pun is posted on a Catholic thread will any Protestants realize the humor in it? :)
Serenity Now!
Liberals’ attack on religion hasn’t removed the religious impulse.
In some liberals, it is de facto Buddhism - mindfulness and yoga being preeminent.
In others, it is environmentalism. Hence the regular anthropomorphizing of Mommy Earth crying because we eat the sacred innocent baby animals and pollute her body with industrial waste.
And for some, it is social justice. That’s liberal political dogma infused with religious levels of devotion. That’s why Youtuber Sargon of Akkad was viciously and even physically attacked for mocking social justice and creating a Youtube video (since censored) that social justice is a cult. Note - he’s a liberal atheist attacking them.
Well, I’ll have to think about that.
>If a Buddhist pun is posted on a Catholic thread will any Protestants realize the humor in it? :)
Probably not, but Jews might!
Hey, we’d all like additional seasons of Firefly....
:)
If some bishop thinks that other meditation is stealing worshipers from prayer he doesn't think too much of his religon, does he?
Blessed are the absent-minded, for theirs are the keys of the kingdom of God. Which they will certainly lose over and over again.
“Be still and know that I am God.” - Psalm 46:10
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