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

Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ... by adamsmith143 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:04AM (#34882659)

I think stories like this relate to misunderstanding the point of meditation practice, the practice. The time spent may be helpful in of itself but really you're meant to do the practice and learn more about how your mind works and be able to have better control of your emotional states. Not retreat into meditating whenever you fell something other than contentment. Disappointing that you apparently didn't learn this from a Buddhist group and instead focused on the actual act of meditating as the useful thing.

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Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ... by starkd on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:27AM (#34883000)

I think the ones that "go deeper" are doing so because they don't know what else to do, what the next step is. But they have achieved some "success", so they keep doing it. It also feeds the rise of new gurus that think they are helping by spreading the message, but they are merely feeding a new ego. There are so many teachers and online gurus hoping to turn it into a vocation.

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