07-19-2017, 09:00 AM
(07-19-2017, 01:29 AM)xise Wrote: Kind of related, but sometimes people put meditation on a pedestal as panacea...and maybe a certain version of it is, but definitely not all forms of meditation...I'm not sure if the word "meditation", as used by Ra/Quo/Latwii, is the same meditation that we use in common language these days.
I say this because I know of many (often eastern) spiritual systems that have tons of distorted belief systems but involve a daily practice of meditation of sitting quietly for 45-60 minutes, sometimes with or without visualizations. And these people in these spiritual systems seem barely more awaken than the average religious practice with distorted belief systems that do not practice meditaiton.
For this to make sense, Ra/Quo/Lawtii must mean a certain sort of meditation. I know I enjoy the meditation I do, and find it very useful and integral to my spiritual growth, but it seems meditation alone does not seem to create much self-awareness when it is paired with distorted belief systems.
My interpretation is that the Confederation wants us to seek a form of transcendental meditation - as in, completely leaving our conscious mind behind in favor of opening up the subconscious mind. "The mind must be opened like a door. The key is silence."