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Lunitik
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In my view, as you use the word it is still a solo exercise. I can replace the word 'meditation' with the words 'doing drugs', or 'thinking sex'. You can do drugs in the middle of a packed dance floor, dancing with 3 girls at the same time, and I would still consider it a solo exercise. The dancing is the only part there that is not solo.
It is certainly an exercise in aloneness, you have still not explained your problem with this.
On a planet all by yourself, you could still meditate. If a person considers a word like love to be something that they could do on a planet all by themselves, then I think they have equally missed the point. A person can use the word 'love' to describe what they themselves like, admire, appreciate, or desire, instead of using the word to mean loving someone. For example: It is possible to love someone that you don't even love (like, admire, appreciate, desire). If love is a solo exercise to a person, or a feeling, then I will likewise renounce it as a solo exercise. The same goes for faith, trust, honesty, confessing, forgiving, patience... viewed and done correctly, in my opinion, these are not really solo exercises.
Then I simply say you have no idea what love is. For you, love is something targeted, there must be something there to direct it on. It only shows a deep dependence and fear of being alone in you. Without the capacity to love without an object, what you call love is merely infatuation and as such it will dry up. You will still cling and try to possess the other, but it is only because you view them as your property. It is impossible for a relationship to be healthy when both are dependent on the other, and if only one is independent they will simply leave because no one wants to be with such a person - everyone wants time to themselves, too much time together and you simply become sick of each other, it is inevitable.
I think the purpose of religion is often established and twisted by whomever is telling it, and then twisted by whomever is receiving it. You have said that the purpose is to re-legion, and to re-bind people. Perhaps, but I'd say only as individuals engage willingly.
Definitely, here is what I am realizing though:
Even on a site directed at religion, no one is actually interested in religion, they are interested in scholarly discussion about religion and fulfilling their curiosity but they are just wasting their time because there is nothing better they can come up with to do.
You seem frustrated that I disagree with you. You have my permission to call me whatever you wish, especially if you think it is true. Since you have routinely spoken against using the mind, and recommend essentially closing it via meditation, I am not sure whether this is a complement, or that you would instead prefer that I actually use my mind, and even have it open to reviewing your viewpoint. I have appreciated reading and thinking about your viewpoint.
It is not a view point at all, and what I say is utterly from honesty because to lie mind must come in - you have to think of the new story you are going to tell, allow imagination to race. I have said repeatedly, I am not here to discuss or debate, and yet you persist in doing so with me.
I have come to an interfaith forum because what I wish to share cannot be pinned to a particular faith, I assumed wrongly that people here would be open to something which embarrasses all spiritual paths. It is simply wrong on my part, and it is about time the experiment be terminated. You have appreciated it, I have felt I am utterly wasting my time consistently because nothing is changing, no one is experiencing anything through my words.
It is exactly because all here stay within the confines of their mediocre puny minds.