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

Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ... by Eupraxias on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:33PM (#34884857)

"So dissolved identity > Panic attacks when choice-satisfaction plummets > subconscious suggests all kinds of cartoonist extremes for an easy and powerful identity > Conscious mind agrees to play along, uses this character to make decisions about > Choice-satisfaction rises. "

I'm sure it's different for most others, but I had the opposite experience. It has introduced a great calm into my life.

From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species.

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Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ... by zozbot234 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:41PM (#34884972)

> From where I am now, I see identity as the central problem we face as a species.

Yeah, except that in practice awareness of no-self is very far from an ethical cure-it-all. There's plenty of supposedly "enlightened" folks in a variety of spiritual traditions who routinely engage in morally sub-standard behavior, despite having reached that awareness themselves and teaching it to others. We know for a fact that many spiritual traditions view correct ethics and behavior as paramount, and as the hardest part of their training.

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