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Meditation and Buddhism
While some types of limited meditation may help escape the rat race and distractions which overtake minds, the concentrated meditation designed for supposedly superior mental states is a corrupt path to follow. It replaces moral responsibilities to other persons with a drug-like high. This substitution promotes the moral corruptions which people are supposed to be overcoming. And it is assumed to lead to a perfect state, which results in a rejection of moral improvement and blocks criticism.
All of moral philosophy is applicable to this corruption. A small amount of summarizing shows the perspective. The first question raised is do people need a relationship to other persons, in human life or the spirit world. Since Buddhism is so self-oriented (read selfish), Buddhists attempt to deny that they need relationships to others. Certainly, in human life they cannot escape their interdependencies. The fact is, all of the concerns of human life are carried into the spirit world, and no one can escape their interdependencies in the spirit world.
(A parenthetical note is that there are personal differences and circumstances that may show the opposite, as everywhere else, but the philosophy and general tendency of meditators is toward selfishness.)
Furthermore, such meditators (usually Buddhists) are flat wrong in claiming to be perfect. How could persons who are that wrong about morality be so right about purposes and states of being? Besides being wrong about everything, they handle realities in a corrupt way. They do not communicate honestly or present their material in a clear and open way. This standard is found wherever there is corruption, and promoters of Buddhism do not rise above it.
For example, a central tenet of theirs is "nonduality." Usually, this means there is no difference between the state which is normally called material and that which is normally called spiritual. It is sometimes described as no difference between moral and immoral. Denying differences is a corrupt way of handling realities. Life is made of differencesso much so that biologists refer to cellular development as differentiation. An embryo going from a single cell to a variety of cells is a process of differentiation. To deny differences is to deny existence.
Physicists define the material universe, and it is nothing resembling the spirit world. Matter must have mass. Spirits do notnot as physicists define and measure mass. Therefore, "nonduality" is a contempt for several centuries of science and five thousand years of religious study.
Why Buddhists create such a concept is evident in their use of it. They use it to block all criticism or competition for reality control, so they can separate their absurdities from criticism and conflict with common knowledge. Whenever someone criticizes them, they say they don't accept it, because they are "nondualists," and then they proceed to synthesize absurdities without correction. It's a scheme, and such scheming is not a state of perfection.
Regardless of some eternal bliss outside human life, they are wrong about their perfection within human life. Morality is the standard by which people relate to each other. Meditators give no real concern for the subject, beyond empty lip service when they need to justify themselves. Morality is too large and demanding of a subject to be properly represented in such a frivolous manner.
Morality is tested and improved by solving problems. This shows and corrects a person's relationship to other persons. The meditators insulate themselves from other influences. This conceals their corruptions. It also increases the corroding forces of nihilism, elitism, domination, selfishness, jealousy, etc., which are visible in their standards.
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