Buddhist Meditation is NOT a Science of the Mind
14 March 2014 [link youtube]
In one important aspect, the problem with Buddhist Meditation is strangely similar to Christian Creationism. (Recorded while sick with a bad fever [發燒], BTW, so my voice is a bit creaky.)
If you've got the patience to read more:
"...we must not forget that the English word meditation denotes a European concept, not a Buddhist one. We find the term in the popular translation of the "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius ([馬爾庫斯·奧列里烏斯] 121--180 A.D.) —scil., a title that is also translated as "private thoughts" or simply as "notes to myself". This shows the range of meanings that the English term has encompassed in recent centuries: it has been used to denote everything from Christian prayer to solipsistic thinking, and includes autobiographical reflections in-between."
From a long article: https://medium.com/p/1c31959b2e56
Youtube Automatic Transcription
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People always want to make statements without without providing any footnotes or any sources, that everyone feels that they're an expert At least people go to some kind of school about Hindu Yoga. me wrong, up anything about Buddhist meditation, to catch up in the Bullshit Olympics. I've heard many atheists say on Youtube that people that they have to pay you money so invisible god. doing all the things a church does, that's If you can get people to line up and pay you ultimate scam. Oh, wait, to compete with it, breathe? we have some of the most lucrative scams in prove that god created the world, and that of the origin of the world, is totally incompatible and other findings of modern science. So difficult to listen to? when people are giving apologies for, explanations It's not that they're wrong about particular to human beings, It's easy to sympathize with someone who's they're wrong ethically or morally... [ethically] with their position [too]... argument is that they're trying so hard to neither asked nor answered in the bible. Randi (a magician, who later became a kind and he was asked a question from the audience This woman demanded of him, from her position you explain gravity? How do you explain time?" he didn't give a very good reply. to attack modern science isn't that their for example, in attacking James Randi, she an answer to the question, "What is gravity?" neither asked nor answered in the Bible! them sufficiently, well, at least you can number of books) that are titled, "What is various perspectives and disciplines, asking of theoretical phyiscs, all kinds of material And it's totally lacking in the bible! The the other, y'know, [e.g.] the famous trial doesn't really contain a doctrine about the [around the earth]. It's not important, from little quotations were brought together [in a factor], obviously, there's a long story But it's painful to see Christians getting be indifferent to. age of the earth. Obviously, [that's] my opinion, based on this ludacris need for the bible This is a video about Buddhist meditation. look for "meditation" in the ancient sutras, there. what it means, has nothing to do with anything I've seen so many claims that Buddhist meditation to modern C.B.T., cognitive behavioral therapy, you, [there's] no scientific basis to it, psychotherapy, that Buddhist meditation has comparable to the wildest fantasies of eary --fantasies they later gave up on, of course, results [they] hoped for. totally irrelevant to the interests of the This video, I'm going to keep it short, I be depressing for everyone involved. when you achieve jhána, the sequence of jhánas, Do you get in touch with your inner child? or some shit like this? Do you get the outcomes of the mind? The desiderata of cognitive behavioral It is an experience that makes it impossible all your worldly possessions, you must give transformation isn't merely mental, it's also You gain the ability to walk through walls, And, just in case some of you are tempted "Well, hey, c'mon, maybe some people in ancient the air like Superman", the original, ancient make it impossible to believe that anyone We all know that if these people could fly they'd be complaining about is getting the see anything, and a number of other practical but no, we get poetic descriptions of the the surface of the sun with your fingertips. that presumed the sun [to be] much smaller that the sun was much closer to the earth and that the sun isn't nearly as hot, as we because that's the vision, it's a vision any but it's obviously not a vision that reflects this superpower through meditation. you're neither going to get the phony, pseudo-medical cynically, in the name of Buddhism, by the ancient texts, which are magical, which and which, frankly, deserve respect --deserve whether it's Socrates, Aristotle, or the Han but this should not be regarded as science. as a modern audience, and [to] the ancient Appreciate what is ancient as ancient, and as modern.