It wasn’t the Buddhist ideals that underpin mindfulness meditation that turned me off, it was the people who call themselves Buddhists that I had to meditate with.
I've learned to use mindfulness as a debugging tool.
When I'm angry or upset I've learned to pull out the mindfulness bag of tricks to see what's going on. I only get down on the floor when I'm in very bad shape. I don't think it'll help but it's the last tool in the bag.
I agree that most of the people talking about mindfulness are the worst, just the worst. It's why I don't talk about it with anyone.
Red Pine's Tao is my favorite by a country mile by the way.
Thanks, Tim. I've been back on the floor lately, and it's been as fascinating as it has been fraught. For support I'm reading some of the ancient texts (that's where Red Pine comes in). Just like we're more apt to learn about Christianity from the Gospels and the writers of the first centuries following them, we're likely to learn about Eastern thought from going to the sources. But it's all so hard to understand so most people don't do it, turning instead to recent interpreters with questionable agendas. Check out Red Pine's travel book, "Finding Them Gone."
George this is really good.
I've learned to use mindfulness as a debugging tool.
When I'm angry or upset I've learned to pull out the mindfulness bag of tricks to see what's going on. I only get down on the floor when I'm in very bad shape. I don't think it'll help but it's the last tool in the bag.
I agree that most of the people talking about mindfulness are the worst, just the worst. It's why I don't talk about it with anyone.
Red Pine's Tao is my favorite by a country mile by the way.
Thanks, Tim. I've been back on the floor lately, and it's been as fascinating as it has been fraught. For support I'm reading some of the ancient texts (that's where Red Pine comes in). Just like we're more apt to learn about Christianity from the Gospels and the writers of the first centuries following them, we're likely to learn about Eastern thought from going to the sources. But it's all so hard to understand so most people don't do it, turning instead to recent interpreters with questionable agendas. Check out Red Pine's travel book, "Finding Them Gone."