Re:When Buddhism Goes Bad – How My Mindfulness Practice Led ...
by yamtaddle on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:13PM
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> I would turn to meditation assuming it would help me get things done but it had the opposite effect of avoiding what I needed to face.
Marcus Aurelius—quoted from memory, so probably not quite right, and it's in translation at any rate:
> You can pass your life in a calm flow of happiness, if you learn to think the right way and to act the right way.
I personally found the "think the right way" easy to get into, but without the "act the right way" it can indeed lead to apathy, detachment, and avoidance. Whoops.
Marcus Aurelius—quoted from memory, so probably not quite right, and it's in translation at any rate:
> You can pass your life in a calm flow of happiness, if you learn to think the right way and to act the right way.
I personally found the "think the right way" easy to get into, but without the "act the right way" it can indeed lead to apathy, detachment, and avoidance. Whoops.