Sky Dancer
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I view the spirit and soul simply as the essence of life, it's the thing that makes us more than just biomechanical objects. It's our personality, our talents, our traits, those things we're born with that make us what we are beyond the flesh and neurons. Even some animals and plants, I believe, have it. I don't believe it's magical, I don't believe there's anything inherently special about it, it's just a component of a living thing.You say you "view the spiritual in a different light". How so?
How I feed my spirit, my soul, is walking in the wilderness. I don't meditate. or practice any kind of ritual, I just walk. It makes me happy on the inside, gives me an overall satisfying peace. Maybe I do see it in a similar light, I don't know, I don't view it in the same light as the Abrahamic faiths, which is probably what I meant. I was drunk when I wrote that, my bad.
Never heard of someone finding doubt in meditation. Please elaborate why you feel this way.How I feel now, is that if I knew what the consequences in my life for taking up meditation long term would be, I may never have started.
Thanks for your answer.
My meditation story is very personal. Not really appropriate for a forum discussion.
There are two reasons I won't discuss it. One, because I'd have to discuss Buddhism at length, and no one here is interested in that. And two, I haven't had good experiences self-disclosing on this forum.
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