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		bserge on July 20, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown Ah yes, the realizations of pointlessness of life, inevitability of death and the prison-like construct of our physical bodies for our actual minds. Don't need meditation to get there. But more importantly, you're supposed to keep going and find peace with it. Not stop and run away in terror. You have yet to succeed at awakening.

adwn on July 20, 2021 [–]

> Congrats, you failed awakening.

This is needlessly dismissive and condescending. It's like saying "Congrats, you failed running a marathon" to someone who suffers an injury after 20 kilometers.

bserge on July 20, 2021 | | [–]

Hmm, I didn't intend it that way, you're right.

plutonorm on July 20, 2021 | | [–]

And yet it has a grain of truth. Which tickles me.

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