/lit/ - Literature

I think it's because meditation, mindfulness, etc. are techniques that directly alter consciousness, but the type advertised by oligarchs is meant to orient consciousness down, not up. Consider the objects of these meditations. Today's YT videos, Ama-zen boxes, etc. always have soothing female voices, white noise, lofi beats, and other stuff that the Hindus would consider "tamas", the element of inertia and sluggishness. The other two elements are "rajas" (energy, restlessness) and "sattva" (luminous stability, divinity), which of course modern oligarchs don't want their serfs to experience. Hence they leave out rajasic practices as might be found in the samurai Rinzai sect of Zen or the evocative Vajrayana branches, and they certainly leave out the sattvic practices as in Theravāda Buddhism or in Patañjali's yoga-sutras. As examples of each: samurai archery, homa fire ritual, the kasina of the sky, the contemplation of the soul (atmān). Do you think any of those would foster the drowsy, drone-like attitude these elites want?

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How were the Buddha and other arahants/bodhisattas able to levitate, teleport, read minds, switch bodies, speak with angels/gods, and perform numerous other miracles if they followed a nihilist path?