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3 Reasons Why Meditation Isn’t For You
Meditation strips away everything that stops you from seeing the truth
Without question, Siddhartha Gautama, known today as The Buddha, takes the prize for being the worst meditation student in history.
It’s one of the reasons we remember him most–thousands of others before and after him reached “Enlightenment”. Gautama simply took it to the very outer edges of the extreme.
After seeing through the luxuries and comforts of his princely upbringing, he spent years seeking teacher after teacher, pushing ascetic practices to their limit, and coming but a breath away from death’s door—on more than one occasion.
You could say he was an ‘all in’ type of guy. He often wore rags that he found in graveyards, slept on beds of thorns, and, when he was feeling extra frisky, meditated among corpses. He held his breath until he felt violent pains in his ears, head, and the rest of his body, until he passed out. He lived on one grain of rice a day for a while, then nothing at all. His physical appearance at the height of his wild behavior was said to be of a living skeleton: his eyes like stones in deep wells, his legs like bamboo sticks, his skin discolored, his spine almost visible through his stomach.
