A Meditation Fallacy: Shortcuts
Some "spiritual" teachers I have been exposed to make a proposition for meditation that sounds like this:
“Do the practice and you will not have to experience all “these” events.”
“They will just not have to happen.”
“So much unfortunate time you will not be wasting.”
“So much less shit you will have to wash from your clothes.”
"Saving so much suffering."
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So it is a given that doing the practice just “gets” you out of “like a bazillion” lifetimes of eating dragon crap.
Who wouldn't sign up and get to it?
( only a moron, right? )
Well, all you can do in meditation is sort through what has already happened.
And sit on your butt.
Can you play with future experiences?
Ones you haven't had?
Gee, those are the only ones you would ever ever have “in the future,” the ones you haven't had yet.
So how exactly are you supposed to avoid the “future” if those “future” cards are ones you don't have in your deck yet?
And they are the ONLY ones “waiting” in the future.
So there is this hilarious pile of “sales talk” going on in meditation.
I wonder if they even see the “joke.”
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