God, that was a bit cringey to sit through, but it's not wrong.
I see the situation like this: when I was very young, my dad and I would go to get various things done at the shop of a gunsmith. The gunsmith was a real country guy, and a hunter, and he had hunting dogs. Often there would be a dog sitting by the fire and I would pet the dog while the adults were doing business. What I remember of the dogs was that they were always covered with ticks. Why? Well, they were working dogs, and the gunsmith just had no consciousness about sitting down and tending to them and removing all the ticks.
Well, that's how almost everyone is: afflicted by various harmful thingies, with no awareness that they are, or any notion that they should be doing anything about it, or any idea what treatment might be effective. They just go through life covered with ticks, and so are all their friends, and nobody thinks anything of it. It's normal. We have no idea about the disease and no idea about the treatment.
Meditation is how you tend to yourself and remove the ticks and put medicine on the injuries.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 15.3 ms ] threadI see the situation like this: when I was very young, my dad and I would go to get various things done at the shop of a gunsmith. The gunsmith was a real country guy, and a hunter, and he had hunting dogs. Often there would be a dog sitting by the fire and I would pet the dog while the adults were doing business. What I remember of the dogs was that they were always covered with ticks. Why? Well, they were working dogs, and the gunsmith just had no consciousness about sitting down and tending to them and removing all the ticks.
Well, that's how almost everyone is: afflicted by various harmful thingies, with no awareness that they are, or any notion that they should be doing anything about it, or any idea what treatment might be effective. They just go through life covered with ticks, and so are all their friends, and nobody thinks anything of it. It's normal. We have no idea about the disease and no idea about the treatment.
Meditation is how you tend to yourself and remove the ticks and put medicine on the injuries.
If you want to try it to see for yourself, this is the stuff that I recommend, that I do, that worked for me: https://library.dhammasukha.org/uploads/1/2/8/6/12865490/the...