429: The Earth as Source of Inspiration - Paramananda & Maitridevi in Conversation
The Buddhist Centre
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The Importance of Meditation
I can't help feeling that we are in a very narcissistic kind of culture now. I wonder whether the sudumus or our self obsession is what blocks that understanding that everything else too is going. Meditation does have something to offer and also we are all capable of using it in a way that just reinforces narcissism. You can use meditation and become super sensitive to everything but in a very self referential way. We always meditate in a real place don't we. If we are not meditating in a real world what are we actually doing, I think it is some kind of fantasy.
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