Basically title. I want to retake meditation since I need to get a hold of my escapism and bad habits to change them and be more healthy mentally for the revolution.
However, upon reading Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana, it mentions how meditation should eventually dissolve any wants and cravings in the mind and try to meditate for hours every day and I can’t help but think that this is something that will try to make you be a bit numb to the pains of injustice, since it sounds like being dissociated from the world.
Is there a revolutionary way to think about meditation?
There are different types of meditation. Can look into “loving kindness” meditation to feel more connected. And mix it up for variety and to help with different aspects of becoming more of who you want to be.
Some meditation, especially derived from Buddhism, will focus on reducing suffering. One way to do that is to want/crave less and let the feelings flow through without addressing them, knowing that they shall pass. Other types are about getting into a loving kindness state to pass that along and reduce suffering in others. That type can be revolutionary. Even just getting yourself in a good headspace to be able to help others, like the airplane oxygen mask metaphor, can be revolutionary and associative.