Anxious tech workers are going to therapy

Re:Anxious tech workers are going to therapy by CPLX on Friday September 20, 2019 @11:59AM (#21028128)

After much back and forth and introspection on this topic I just went ahead and became a Zen Buddhist.

I don't think we can function as humans without regular long, meaningful detachment from all these digital tools.

There's a lot of ways to do it. But I feel like everyone needs to pick one.

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Re:Anxious tech workers are going to therapy by Bartweiss on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:34PM (#21064880)

If you don't mind, a question: do you believe in reincarnation?

That's always seemed like a barrier to consciously 'accepting' Zen, the way one might accept Confucianism or utilitarianism or any other moral philosophy.

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Re:Anxious tech workers are going to therapy by CPLX on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @03:38PM (#21074476)

Interesting question. I would say that honestly I don’t, in the sense that I have any degree of certainty that it happens.

But I also have no degree of certainty that it doesn’t happen.

One of the core concepts of Zen is abandoning western concepts of duality. I’m increasingly willing to be confortable with the idea that I have no ability to conceptualize and verbalize the concept of myself existing before life or after death, and likely never will.

So it’s not that I will or won’t, it’s not really a yes or no answer. More like a NaN answer.

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