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Originally Posted by End_Times012
For some, it is not easy to break those shackles.
Would meditation be of any help?
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None whatsoever !
If you retreat from life as a habit. Then trying to stop retreating by retreating into meditation won't make much difference will it? What good is it to you or the world if you can find peace of mind locked up in a cave? When you'll only lose it again after leaving the cave.
However, you can keep your mind on the situation at hand. Occasionally ask yourself if what you're thinking about is relevant to the now, or if it is future/past/hope/fear...
If it is not relevant to the now. Then drop it and do something else.
Don't get me wrong, building stuff, studying and such are not future/hopes... Like remembering where you left your keys is not being in the past. They are the road being travelled now. Thinking about how great it will be to have your educations finished.. That is future/hopes....... Reminding yourself of your first lover whom you will never see again.. That is hiding in the past...
It's not hard at all... You'll slide back into your escapism a lot.. That is how you convince yourself that "embracing the situation at hand" is what you want to do. By reconfirming the choice to stop escaping every chance you get.
The problem with mankind is that we're hardly here... If you sit in a subway and look around. Most of us are absent, lost in our futures or in our pasts... None of us is usually there...