When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led Me to Meltdown

Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ... by analyst74 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:25AM (#34881510)

> I experienced a deep realisation that our thoughts manifest from nowhere and not from ourselves (words fail me here) and that the construct of 'me' was completely false and was just a reverberation of my environment.

Wait, is this not common knowledge??

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Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ... by haswell on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:36AM (#34881642)

Knowledge is not the same thing as insight, and experiencing what the parent comment describes is something that most people never attempt (or even realize there is something to attempt).

Having a philosophical/intellectual conversation about the nature of mind is very different than your own mind wrapping itself around these concepts directly.

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Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ... by yyyk on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:16AM (#34882824)

It's a common argument, which may or may not be true if it can be properly defined at all.

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