RE: Zen Buddhism
July 5, 2016 at 7:02 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2016 at 7:06 pm by emjay.)
(July 5, 2016 at 6:47 pm)LivingNumbers6.626 Wrote:(July 5, 2016 at 6:42 pm)Emjay Wrote: Yep. Not religiously... pardon the pun... but sometimes.
Yeah me neither. I tried to get into a meditation group but it started to become religious and uncomfortable. Phrase like "expanding consciousness," "we are all god and god is us," and then some really like the SRF (Self Realization Fellowship)...and then half of them believed in conspiracies and literal aliens and inter planetary communication. Grrrr. haha. I'm like...anyone here to meditate because you're stressed out or need some quiet time?
I've never been to anything like that... nothing with the superstitious/religious side of Buddhism... as far as I'm concerned that's just added on baggage from other religions and not part of the core teachings of Buddhism... which have no gods. A few weeks ago I went to a Buddhist Temple but it still wasn't like that... just some chanting which just sounded nice and was kind of hypnotic for me but didn't mean anything to me other than something else to focus on for meditation, a long meditation, then a recorded talk just about the basically the basics of Buddhism, then more chanting but this time in English... which was quite interesting because what they were saying in English was just all about wellbeing and stuff like that... the last thing I'd expect a chant to consist of. Anyway I don't know where I'd be without it... meditation and mindfulness... to the extent that I do it... it just calms me down and gives me a different perspective on things when I need it
