A quick search through the annals of r//zen history searching on "meditation" suggests there have been waves of people (and their alts) who have been very interested in meditation but not so interested in Zen.
They seem to have a few things in common:
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Initially focusing antipathy on ewk, rather than on Zen texts that explicitly reject meditation: /r/zensangha/wiki/notmeditation
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Gradually expanding their antipathy to the entire Zen forum
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Ultimately leaving the forum, returning to forums they create, or r/Buddhism, or quitting Reddit.
They don't seem to make peace with historical facts. They don't seem to come to a point of regret about their conduct. They don't seem to achieve any transcendance beyond the need for practice.
It's a pattern of dependency, if anything.
Is it possible that meditation is an addictive practice that rather that curing anger, fear of doubt, and self-centeredness... can, when practiced incorrectly, lead to addiction?
If so, are people who talk about meditation in this forum might not be trying to create controversy for it's own sake... they might be addicts, acting out their suffering?
Is this addiction linked to certain Buddhist beliefs?
Recently I came across this:
- DO NOT practice towards a state of tranquility and mental peacefulness -meditation/introspection/contemplation - out of a desire for a direct faith-based insight into metaphysical world of impermanent, full of suffering and without self-nature.
Is it possible that the belief in an impermanent world of suffering and no self creates unhappiness, the way Christian beliefs in original sin create unhappiness?
Submitted May 10, 2020 at 09:00PM by ewk https://ift.tt/2SMk8If
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