Rational Meditation
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Rational Meditation
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Robert Villegas
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About this listen
This guide to rational thinking takes on mysticism, mindfulness and eastern religious influences by explaining how they do not help men live by means of reason and rational thinking.
Mindfulness, in particular, is the meditation system of the left. The author shows how meditation can be done without mysticism, leftist philosophy and the denigration of the individual.
Rational Meditation is not about collective joining with groups of like-minded people (Plato) and/or becoming Hephaistos (Freud and Jung). It is not about learning to help others as a moral imperative (Kant). It is not about worshipping the noble savage and attempting to emulate him (Rousseau). It is not about pursuing concretes disconnected from the universe (Hume) and it is not about adjusting to your peers, friends and tribe (Hillary Clinton, John Dewey and Jordan Peterson). It is not about establishing social justice, environmental policies and changing the world through individual self-sacrifice (Bernie Sanders and AOC).
Rational Meditation is self-meditation. It is thinking about yourself without guilt and without the tenets of modern philosophy (that the world is unknowable, that man is a phony, that ethics and living are only about others). Rational meditation is self-interested meditation. With rational mediation, you take some time off to think about a certain aspect of yourself, your being and your life and you examine your relationship with existence.
Rational meditation puts you first and makes you think about what is most important to you, your life, your happiness, your position in the world and what you will do with your moments. It is not about a wandering mind, it is about learning to stay in the self. The basic questions are: “Who am I?” “Where am I?” and “What am I going to do to get where I want to go?” The first question is the question of identity. The second is the question of where you are mentally and physically and how you got there, while the third question is about moral thinking and acting, holding values and achieving them. This is what mediation should be about. It is about you and how you can live a rational and happy life.
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