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Re:Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety by crazygringo on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:18PM (#24192894)
> meditation is a religious practice specifically aimed at causing ego-death

Only very specific types of meditation, at their advanced levels.

The kind of meditation the vast majority of people do in the US, for example, has absolutely zero intention of achieving ego-death.

Saying meditation is specifically aimed at causing ego-death makes as much as saying running is specifically aimed at qualifying for the Olympics.

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Re:Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety by yters on Monday August 17, 2020 @07:40PM (#24193594)
intention doesn't have anything to do with mechanism
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Re:Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety by h0l0cube on Monday August 17, 2020 @08:43PM (#24194083)
It has much to do with the outcome. A surgeon can use a knife to save someone's life, a thug could use a knife to rob someone of their possessions.
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Re:Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety by Icedcool on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:46PM (#24194472)
With meditation it absolutely does. What you aim at in meditation guides your results.
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