http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/08/the-quiet-station-of-meditation/ Conversations with Living Luminaries and Mavericks Wed, 16 May 2012 22:22:59 +0000 http://podbean.com/?v=3.2 http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/08/the-quiet-station-of-meditation/#comment-86414 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:32:25 +0000 http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/08/the-quiet-station-of-meditation/#comment-86414 Thanks, David. Spiritual societies of meditators, such as those found in Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, India and Tibet, are some of the models we have so far. Generally speaking, these societies have flourished, with periods of peaceful, empathic, reverential and ritualistic culture, and the people have lived stable, harmonious lives for a time. Then, invaders with utter disregard, storm in and drive the people off their land, their temples and art are defiled, and those who stick around are oppressed by a spiritually immature regime. So, among the meditators, yes, this web of deserved trust does develop. But that doesn't mean the neighboring non-meditators leave them alone, and this can leave the meditators, people who have found their way to their own innocence, let's say, pretty vulnerable to those who haven't: those who live by might makes right and empirialism/materialism. Meditation can be separated from religion and ritual, and be practiced all over the world now as a mental hygiene, the way civilized and educated people take a shower or brush our teeth, because if we don't, there will be many undesirable consequences, not least of all being that we might stink and rot. Thanks, David. Spiritual societies of meditators, such as those found in Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, India and Tibet, are some of the models we have so far. Generally speaking, these societies have flourished, with periods of peaceful, empathic, reverential and ritualistic culture, and the people have lived stable, harmonious lives for a time. Then, invaders with utter disregard, storm in and drive the people off their land, their temples and art are defiled, and those who stick around are oppressed by a spiritually immature regime. So, among the meditators, yes, this web of deserved trust does develop. But that doesn’t mean the neighboring non-meditators leave them alone, and this can leave the meditators, people who have found their way to their own innocence, let’s say, pretty vulnerable to those who haven’t: those who live by might makes right and empirialism/materialism. Meditation can be separated from religion and ritual, and be practiced all over the world now as a mental hygiene, the way civilized and educated people take a shower or brush our teeth, because if we don’t, there will be many undesirable consequences, not least of all being that we might stink and rot.

]]> http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/08/the-quiet-station-of-meditation/#comment-86348 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:40:38 +0000 http://jari.podbean.com/2008/03/08/the-quiet-station-of-meditation/#comment-86348 Would meditation promote a "web of deserved trust" as described by Munger? Would meditation promote a “web of deserved trust” as described by Munger?

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