Posted: Feb 26, 2017 4:27 pm
Thommo wrote:
You have quite the task to show that mindfulness techniques are so effective as to make all mental and physical suffering irrelevant.
The gap between this and what perhaps is more accurate - that some people claim limited alleviation of certain types of pain can be achieved by a variety of talking therapies and meditative techniques - is far too large for this to underpin the sweeping claims in the OP and the implications they do hold (which, again include none for the existence of free will, nor any for the existence of god(s)).
Instead of being deviated by those questions simply ask yourself these 2:
- Do I desire NOT to suffer? If the answer is yes, ask yourself:
- Am I sure I will always have the free will not to be attached to that desire ? And by always I mean potential existence after physical death in this reality.