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How is it a scam when monks teach it free in my country?
from my understanding, you are learning almost the wrong ways or you don't really understand even basically. That is why you can't achieve things:
(English is not my native language) > But then isn’t our whole life a sequence of meditations? Because we always focus on something (with sleep breaks).
=> Mediation means we rid of thoughts, cause we always thought something in the past or in the future and it makes your brain can't relax. > Other gurus teach that meditation is “doing nothing”. Okay, but then again there’s nothing special about it, we all do it from time to time.
=> Even if you do nothing, but you always think something => same the result as above. > Another way to look at it - just sit peacefully and observe your thoughts.
=> It is wrong, we observe, not think something.from my understanding, don't observe in your head, you observe the lowest point on your body when you are sitting. And you have to know your breath when it is in and out. If you think nothing, you can sense your body. Ex: when you work or play games or watch movies, and a moquisto bite you, you almost don't know. But while you observe, you can sense tiny things about your body, even if a mosquito touches your skin. And It is hard to mediation when you don't know basically about Buddhism - This is my guess from what did you write. |
Why? There's nothing inherently Buddhist about meditation; there's no reason to bring religion into this. Buddhism is a tradition that has been practicing meditation for a long time, but their practice is shrouded in their mysticism, so it's difficult to know what's real and what isn't.
This is coming from someone who once thought like you, by the way. Although I am an atheist, I read a lot about Buddhism and meditation, even medidated with a monk. The religious aspects are a complete waste of time, so you're better off learning from a secular source.