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Meditation practice that doesn’t arise spontaneously (or comes to one organically) might only add to the stressload of everyday life.
Same goes, probably, for yoga and exercises of all sorts.
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Which reminds me of good intentions—paving the road to the proverbial hell—and a great quote by Robert A. Heinlein:
“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
I’m not sure about the ‘always’ in that sentence but goodwill has indeed proven to be quite slippery a virtue over the last century.
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What exactly is the connection there? Well, try and figure it out. The key word is spontaneous and organic . . . as opposed to programmatic.