Current Events > If I may, a rant on "zen meditation" videos

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visiting the parents. Went to the planetarium and watched 40 minutes of a self help meditation video. The music was calm enough. Your typical steel pan drums and reverb. The visuals were the typical fractals, space, and lotus flowers. You seen one youve seen them all.

but thats not the part Im going to complain about. The part that annoys me is the narration inbetween the songs.

do not fear the future. Do not live in the past. I believe you can be happy so long as you want to be happy.

this is a VERY privileged outlook on life. Like could you imagine trying to pull this in the holocaust? Hey man, you were taken from your home. That was yesterday. Dont worry about yesterday. Sure they want to gas you tomorrow but thats just gonna make you sad man. The problem is you. You need to just be happy about this death camp. Thats the solution.

All you told me was that you arent the person on the chopping block. You arent one of the groups getting their rights taken away. You arent getting your house bombed out and having to relocate. You arent being forced to give birth even if the act could kill you.

im glad you arent in any serious danger. But no, there are external forces trying to hurt people out there. Laws that passed in the 80s are crippling people today. Not acting now does leave things even worse for the future. fuck you.

VRX3000 posted...

do not fear the future. Do not live in the past. I believe you can be happy so long as you want to be happy.

this is a VERY privileged outlook on life. Like could you imagine trying to pull this in the holocaust?

No, I cannot imagine them playing that during the Holocaust.

But also, uh... They weren't playing that during the Holocaust, so, uh...? This feels like getting upset at something silly just for the sake of being upset. Nobody takes zen meditation seriously. You're basically working yourself into a shoot.

Check out Mans Search for Meaning for that very topic actually