Sunday, May 15, 2011

How to meditate... without Faith.

How to Meditate

Sam Harris finished off his brilliant book "The End of Faith" with a great chapter on Eastern meditation, a spiritual yet reasonable insight, that many Atheists, myself included, have a keen interest.  I have dabbled in Yoga and flirted with the basics of meditation, always with a hopeful eye on finding a spiritual yet genuine way of dealing with anxiety and depression, but a way that is still grounded in reason.  Sam Harris in his recent blog How to Meditate, this time, goes one step further, and suggests a technique called Vipassana (Pali, "insight"), which comes from the oldest tradition of Buddhism, the Theravada.  I just may have found my spiritual practice?   Read for yourself... and "Don't fall!".

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