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Re:Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness by Alex3917 on Tuesday June 26, 2012 @10:17PM (#4165192)
"Buddha himself never claimed he was enlightened through meditation."

He claimed he was enlightened by following the four noble truths, of which meditation is one component. It might not be possible to achieve enlightenment through only meditation, but it's probably not possible to achieve enlightenment without meditation either.

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Re:Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness by blueprint on Thursday June 28, 2012 @10:49AM (#4171932)
What are the four noble truths, in short?
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Re:Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness by Alex3917 on Thursday June 28, 2012 @12:40PM (#4172513)
The relevant one in this case would be the 8-fold path, which has right mindfulness and right concentration as two of its steps.
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Re:Why Meditation Doesn't Directly Increase Happiness by blueprint on Friday June 29, 2012 @01:43PM (#4177915)
I see that you understand these as steps to be enlightened and perfect oneself, but these are not the things that the saints practiced before becoming Enlightened, but rather afterwards. The reason is that you already need to have a very high level of consciousness before you can distinguish right and wrong correctly - it can't be practiced until you've already realized.
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