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Originally Posted by iamthat
Such dismissal of meditation misses the point. Meditation is not about attaining future goals, meditation is about being fully present. Meditation is an opportunity to sit and be, without external distraction. They seem to have defined meditation in a very limited way just so that they can dismiss it. And meditation is as good a way of spending one's time as any other activity (or inactivity).
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Yes, I see this going on quite a bit. Meditation is singled out as reinforcing the separate self whereas practically everything else - contributing to a forum, writing a book, making your favourite sandwich etc. - seems to be okay. It’s missing the point. Meditation - like everything else, is
simply what is happening. And if that particular expression (meditation = being with what is, as it is) correlates with a diminishing of mental fog which keeps the mind in the dream of separation, then a lucid insight to the natural state can occur which might otherwise have gone unnoticed.
Of course the argument is that mental fog or no mental fog, Oneness/no separation is the case. Yes this is true. But if it’s not seen then such a statement is trite and solipsistic. The BEING of our true nature is always already the case. The SEEING of it is not.