Perhaps true but after how many years of yoga? Does enough of a % of humanity have the patience to persevere?
Yoga is great. Meditation is great. Both are slow, and humanity wants / needs to wake up now.
Yoga is great. Meditation is great. Both are slow, and humanity wants / needs to wake up now.
Don't worry about humanity, just see what you can do for yourself.
>Both are slow, and humanity wants / needs to wake up now.
If you are making a baby, do you want one which is made 9 months or one which comes earlier? Everything has it's time, for someone it takes less time, for some - more, but this is just how it goes, if you are taking shortcuts with life you just fooling yourself.
Thanks I do appreciate that view and one that is often said. Healing starts with us. Heal yourself, heal the world etc. So I went to see what I could do for myself. And I found that helping others was how I helped myself. So I think that often suggested philosophy is simple on the surface but actually quite the paradox.
> if you are taking shortcuts with life you just fooling yourself. What is a shortcut? Isn't part of improving as an individual or species about finding ways to do things more efficiently? With less time or energy or resources.
That is an important observation, on many levels. One of them is that right things do not have to fit into our logic, eg they can be paradoxical. By "right" I mean what works, not moral or something.
By shortcut I mean to get to big experiences quickly. In yoga they always talk about stability and discipline because if there is no stable enough base big experiences might be too overwhelming.
According to the Zen Buddhism "enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second".
That being said in total agreement that having a base can make for a safer, deeper experience and or more lasting results.
It can or it can not. Every day you can also find a bag full of cash, so are you quitting your job already? :D (This is by no means some authoritative or profound answer, just how I feel it now)
Psychedelics got me started meditating.
I see value in both.
Quite the opposite in my experience. The effect wears off, but it doesn't create an addiction.
I certainly don't think we should have the destructive, Puritan regime of prohibition in place (it was pretty much an excuse to arrest members of the left-wing counterculture in the 1960s rather than any genuine public health concern), but completely heading in the other direction isn't a good idea either. The cultures that have used psychedelics for millenia have lots of cultural/spiritual practices around them to make them safer, just taking a pill and thinking you're ready to meet God without any sort of preparation is a recipe for going spectacularly mad.