Meditations on Yoga, meditations etc
I still don't understand why people want to stop their minds? The idea that you need to "stop your mind" to reach "inner peace" seems to imply people walk around in "inner turmoil." Since I have never been someone else this seems very odd. It must be very hard to live everyday with only short peaceful stints. Well if it makes them feel better great. But I wonder why they are always in such turmoil? Is it just that they are slaves to many obligations or maybe they never learned to enjoy life's little pleasures? Friends who do Tai-chi also claim similar "inner peace" stuff and physical benefits (to moving very slowly) but then still throw out their backs lifting items. As someone who is always trying to think faster, do more and lift heavier weights: I don't get it. Ideas?
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posted by Eddie | 12:26 PM
1 Comments:
Oh, there's a conversation in this, definitely. Read into mindfulness techniques in psychotherapy, and it'll make a bit more sense.
The attitude that "Hey, my life's all right now, why try to make it better" isn't conducive to science, is it?
As for throwing out your back... that's no argument against the benefit of Tai-Chi -- unless your friends claimed that those benefits would make it impossible for them to lift more than they could.
There's no argument against commonplace lack-of-thinking -- except maybe, being clear about what you're thinking -- which is the goal of mindfulness training by Buddhists [at least] from certain "lineages" [or schools], including Zen.
LONG conversation.
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