I've read his book "Waking up" like a decade ago. No, it is specificly about transcendance and makes bold claims about Eastern practices' abilities. Like he writes about how he met some Dzogchen practitioners in India that are capable of making it obvious to any asshole that self is illusionary through asking a sequence of questions like "what do you think you is".
AFAIK "transcendental meditation" is a type of meditation popularised by what is arguably a cult in the 60s with outlandish claims like if a bunch of people do it it will decrease crime in the community.
I get your point, but they claim that them gathering in convention centre together to meditate (gathering is supposedly an important part) lead to decrease in violent crime all around USA. You can decide for yourself if that's a bit silly or not.
Maybe it’s about feeling connection to something outside one’s self. It is maybe its about community, maybe its the urge to decentralize the self as the main locus of understanding the world. Maybe its about the thousand other things that religion can provide.
To be fair, religion and christianity specifically was and still is responsible for a lot of super fucked up stuff. And the lame reddit bullying tactics are frankly the same thing we do on chapo, just for different reasons
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Funny thing is that Sam Harris wrote a bunch of books lauding meditation and Eastern "spirituality" and what not.
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I've read his book "Waking up" like a decade ago. No, it is specificly about transcendance and makes bold claims about Eastern practices' abilities. Like he writes about how he met some Dzogchen practitioners in India that are capable of making it obvious to any asshole that self is illusionary through asking a sequence of questions like "what do you think you is".
“Well firstly, I really hate Muslims.”
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AFAIK "transcendental meditation" is a type of meditation popularised by what is arguably a cult in the 60s with outlandish claims like if a bunch of people do it it will decrease crime in the community.
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I get your point, but they claim that them gathering in convention centre together to meditate (gathering is supposedly an important part) lead to decrease in violent crime all around USA. You can decide for yourself if that's a bit silly or not.
yeah, that's a big part of it.
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I am going to say you were probably being a bit unfair in your characterization of AD tho. 😶
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To be fair, religion and christianity specifically was and still is responsible for a lot of super fucked up stuff. And the lame reddit bullying tactics are frankly the same thing we do on chapo, just for different reasons
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