Basically title. I want to retake meditation since I need to get a hold of my escapism and bad habits to change them and be more healthy mentally for the revolution.
However, upon reading Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana, it mentions how meditation should eventually dissolve any wants and cravings in the mind and try to meditate for hours every day and I can’t help but think that this is something that will try to make you be a bit numb to the pains of injustice, since it sounds like being dissociated from the world.
Is there a revolutionary way to think about meditation?
The revolutionary way of thinking about meditation is the same as the revolutionary way of thinking about working out.
However, thinking about meditation is just as useful as thinking of working out.
Meditation is not some external magic that will transform you against your will, just like lifting weights won’t make you an accidental meathead.
Meditation is about you, not about something else. Working out is about you, not about something else. You are actively participating in it at all times. There is no risk of becoming numb to the injustices of the world unless that is what you are actively pursuing. There is no risk of becoming lost in escapism unless that is what you are actively pursuing.