Comments on: Does Meditation Change Your Philosophy? http://www.muditajournal.com/archives/183.php Mindfulness and Individualism Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nikki http://www.muditajournal.com/archives/183.php#comment-64472 Nikki Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:27:53 +0000 http://www.zader.com/2006/?p=183#comment-64472 So what about the inverse of this? If one has an innate, "natural" understanding & belief in the basic philosophy taught by the Buddha and his successors, does one still need to go through all the motions (i.e. meditation) that is supposed to result in the "discovery" of these truths? What is the point if one already knows them and has no need of discovering them? Since the Buddha went to all that trouble to reach the conclusions he reached, and then to teach them and pass them down to us, what purpose does it serve for us to sit in meditation to reach the same conclusions - especially if such an understanding of reality is already an innate part of one's psyche? So what about the inverse of this? If one has an innate, “natural” understanding & belief in the basic philosophy taught by the Buddha and his successors, does one still need to go through all the motions (i.e. meditation) that is supposed to result in the “discovery” of these truths? What is the point if one already knows them and has no need of discovering them? Since the Buddha went to all that trouble to reach the conclusions he reached, and then to teach them and pass them down to us, what purpose does it serve for us to sit in meditation to reach the same conclusions – especially if such an understanding of reality is already an innate part of one’s psyche?

]]> By: Robert http://www.muditajournal.com/archives/183.php#comment-198 Robert Sun, 11 Apr 2004 23:04:17 +0000 http://www.zader.com/2006/?p=183#comment-198 "mindful of the suffering of animals" What about plants, which are sentient ? “mindful of the suffering of animals”

What about plants, which are sentient ?

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