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People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
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Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bytematic, I'd be quite interested if you could track down the details on him and his research.
I think OP meant `What's this Tao all About?` found here: http://whatsthistao.com/ The episode regarding meditation is Episode 4 ( http://whatsthistao.com/2015/09/21/epiosode-4-meditation/ ) but I would be weary of the source as Dr. Carl Totton is a "Reiki master" and Chinese spiritual healer. I personally believe meditation is fantastic in calming the mind and relaxing you.
That podcast only has positive things to say about meditation. I found his dissertation mentioned a few places, but couldn't find the actual document...
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#73People need to understand that the stuff like meditation that's popular right now and gets taught is just a very small subset of Buddhist practice. Real Buddhist teachings go much further. Same for yoga. Yoga is meant to be a way of life but what most Westerners see is just a form of aerobics with a few spiritual words sprinkled in.
the linked essays here changed how i think about (western) buddhism pretty deeply:
https://vividness.live/2015/09/23/buddhist-ethics-is-a-fraud...
especially this one:
https://vividness.live/2015/10/05/buddhist-ethics-is-adverti...
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#74i found this two blogs http://mawazo.tk and http//cnn.com
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#75Orthodox Christianity has a very rich contemplative history. In particular, understanding concepts like the nous do quite a bit to illuminate our more modern idea of ego and the false dialectic of big vs. small / null ego.
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#76> When students were evaluated in the hour after their yoga class, they showed significantly higher self-enhancement, according to all three measures, than when they hadn’t done yoga in the previous 24 hours. I wonder, is this what ego means in Buddhism? Also, is this what ego historically meant in Buddhism? For a long time, people in Buddhist communities would call you crazy if you meditate. Having followed one theo…
Even if yoga or meditation had diminished your ego (whatever you choose it to mean), would that make you less likely to answer affirmatively to a statement like, "Compared to the average, I'm relatively free from bias"? If you really were selfless, wouldn't you always answer "yes"? Or would you answer "no" because "the average" has no meaning once you realize oneness with everything? I'm not convinced it's a useful m…
Here's the study ...
https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/420273/
Ego is measured by answering questions like ...
> “At the moment, I have high self-esteem” (1 = does not apply at all, 7 = applies completely).
I'm unconvinced that vague self-reports like this have any useful meaning.
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#77Is it possible that the ego in this article and the ego that the Buddhists are talking about are two different things? This may be a miscommunication, using the same word to point to different ideas. How can we know when the article never clarifies exactly what it means by ego?
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#78You can see the egos as big as the sun in certain areas. Go down to Miami Beach and yoga is a competitive sport. It’s so fake and so phony and you’ve got people spending $200/hr for yoga/meditation sessions and it’s completely bonkers.
What's worse is all the "hipster yoga" classes and movements taking place. Remember seeing that "Yoga with goats" class? Or "Yoga with kittens" in the studio. It's a great example of first-world privilege and "living in the bubble" that we do here.
I’m not sure what’s wrong with this, why does everything have to be completely authentic to the original source?
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is worth reporting in a scientific article though. Null-results, everything should be reported and accessible somewhere. The reproducibility crisis should be stopped, otherwise I can just claim whatever I want and be as wrong as the social scientists who have trouble finding any verifiable fact. Regarding to what is news worthy and therefore publishable on news: whatever makes money, I wouldn't know what makes mon…
> It is worth reporting in a scientific article though. Null-results, everything should be reported and accessible somewhere. Which is exactly what I said in my original post. > Regarding to what is news worthy and therefore publishable on news: whatever makes money I'm usually pretty cynical but I do at least wish we could hold news to a higher standard than "Make money".
Ah, my apologies, didn't catch that.
Regarding the news: I hope so too. I suppose I betrayed my cynicism.
Re: People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study
#80There is only one way to study meditation. Do it.
There is no Buddhist Pope that makes proclamations that you just have to accept on faith. There is no Buddhist scientific organization holding press conferences on their latest discoveries. It is all about practice and experience, the rest (and I know there is a lot of it..) is just fluff and colorful decoration.
Ego is Small Mind, noisy mind, chattering monkey mind. When you quiet that through mediation you start to experience Big Mind, the source of intuition and wisdom and a clearer look at reality. But, as the ancient books say, it is nothing special.