(September 2, 2016 at 6:57 pm)Emjay Wrote: My strongly Christian parents were, and still are, much more upset about me coming out as gay than as an atheist. But funnily enough they've hardly batted an eye about the atheism but as soon as I started showing an interest in Buddhism, they went nuts, figuratively speaking. So since I still live with them, as an adult, it felt very unpleasant to feel ashamed just to go to a simple meditation class... and to have to essentially hide it from them to keep the peace. I shouldn't have had to do thatI shouldn't have to be ashamed about wanting to meditate when all it is to me is good psychology and an exercise in wellbeing with nothing supernatural about it. In their ignorance about the subject, to them I want to join some weird cult but it's not even a religion as I'm interested in it... it's just a philosophy... with no 'god' anywhere in sight. It just really annoys me
No, you shouldn't. What do they say when you tell them it's just a mental exercise? Or are you even able to talk about it with them?
A Gemma is forever.
