Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next Rob Burbea - Meditation Fantasies & The Soulmaking Dharma
Sep 3, 2018
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Meditation As A Medical Model
- Many people adopt meditation to reduce suffering, which functions as a medical model for practice.
- That model is helpful but can become constricting if held as the only purpose of practice.
Multiple Fantasies Shape Practice
- Practitioners often hold other fantasies: artistic (beauty), scientific (research) or medical motives coexist.
- Taking any fantasy too seriously narrows perception and can neuter deeper capacities like eroticism and creativity.
Practice As Play Of Ways Of Looking
- Meditation can be framed as exploring an infinite playground of 'ways of looking' at appearances.
- Different ways of looking change suffering, self-perception, and the felt world rather than revealing a single fixed reality.