(July 5, 2016 at 6:51 pm)LivingNumbers6.626 Wrote:(July 5, 2016 at 6:48 pm)Gemini Wrote: I've done Vipassana off and on, which is pretty similar to zen.
I've heard of it. How did you like it? And what made it difficult to stay engaged? Just wondering...
Mine is time and terrible excuses and lack of people who wont turn meditation into some concrete religious path.
Oh I loved it. I was fascinated by phenomenology for years before I discovered meditation and I definitely learned a lot from it.
But yeah, the religious association with meditation was a turn off for me too. Not that that's a good excuse for quitting, but meditation is difficult and it's more difficult trying to do it on your own. Find a sangha group and there's gonna be all kinds of new-agey woo going on.
Anyway, I've got a couple of kids now and that makes it tough to find some quiet time to meditate, even though I know it's worth it (it's a lot like exercise that way...)
A Gemma is forever.
