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>>10451543
>If machines didn't function by breaking down and interrupting each other (as >>10451360 points out), you'd have an unbearable experience of the infinite (constantly hungry or horny or scared, etc.).
Isn't that what depression is? And also the eternal bliss (which is not happiness or pleasure) of enlightenment?

>>8806923
>And since they are humans, they have human rights.
Is this you?

I recently started using John Kabat-Zinn's guided meditation. I'm going on a vipassna retreat in two weeks. Do any /lit/izens have any more good references? Do any of you guys meditate? Does it help? I find it does but I'm still relatively neophyte and undisciplined and looking for something easier to digest that can help my practice.