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Originally Posted by terrazoids
People hanging around taking other folks food for free while they apparently spend their whole life trying to gain some 'Enlightenment'. Gee whiz, and when they're done, they're so spaced out they get up from under the tree and stand in the same spot staring into space for 6 days!
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...which applies to Christian hermits too, then.
Do I have to repeat ONCE AGAIN that that same MEDITATION is praised by St. Augustine (who was a Christian scholar, a saint, and is today accepted as one of the most brilliant theologist who ever lived) as the best way to hear God's voice, and that many Saint did that same meditation to see Jesus/God/the Holy Mary/other Saints and talk to them? So, if buddhist meditation is so wrong, then Christian meditation must be just as wrong, since they work the same way: you start by abstaining from food, you sit in the same place for days, you contemplate your surrounding, then you contemplate your inner self, and you look for your inner Soul (which is the Christian counterpart of the Buddhist Divine Spark). At that moment, God supposedly talks to you, or so report several dozens of saints who did this in the past.
(I may be agnostic, but I was lucky enough to study Christian History and Theology in Rome)
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Yeah sure... Keep meditating. And become enlightened by reading books by Han Solo! Funny...
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I partially agree to this. Just, please go to a Christian cloister monk and tell him the same thing, just to see how he replies. I'll wait here, because I have already done it.