(November 17, 2015 at 1:38 pm)Rhythm Wrote: They also see prayer as a route to self improvement (and some see it as a route for improvement of things even beyond themselves), as a part of a godly life. The outcome is supposed to be the same.
OFC praying won't make a sick child better, but meditation won't make a person any "better" either - sick or otherwise.
Theres a pattern here, I'm trying to help you see. What we are discussing, is people engaging in superficially different methods to achieve fundamentally similar goals. Why would you even expect it to be something else? We're all human, we're all very similar, just a few points this way or that way in deviation from the mean.
In our practices meditation is not used to work miracles (which it cant anyway). It is used to enhance a persons mindfulness, be more compassionate , be calm , basically to be a better person (Study's have proved it and meditation has been used on patients with metal disorders). Calling out for God and asking for miracles to happen and wanting to be a better person are two very different outcomes. The way of doing either may be the same, The purpose is different by a big margin.
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path" - Gautama Buddha
