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Re:A Guide to “Getting” Rumi by pmoriarty on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:17PM (#13777785)
This reminds me very much of the desacralization of meditation, yoga, and even Buddhism as they are often taught in the West.

The former two in particular are often thought of as nothing more than means for improving one's health or destressing, with little if any appreciation of their religious roots.

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Re:A Guide to “Getting” Rumi by fdsfsafasfdas on Thursday March 02, 2017 @03:49PM (#13778055)
'sacred' has had many meanings even in eastern buddhist sects; 'desacralization' had begun long before westernization.

However, there's huge kernel of truth here—Buddhist sects in particular (I can't speak for other uses for meditation; it's a huge area of knowledge) are entire frameworks (or philosophies, if you'd prefer) for how to think about life, and picking and choosing subsets of it will only bring subsets of the rewards.

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