Hello
Hello Brian! So I was thinking about something we talked about yesterday on here. Meditation. My question is: can meditation be selfish? Because if you think about it, the only person you are focusing on during mediation is yourself. And Jesus taught that when we feel overwhelmed we should look outward and serve others. You can't serve anyone if you are alone in a room meditating. I know it's not inherently selfish. There is nothing wrong with wanting to improve yourself. But what I'm saying is does it have the potential to be selfish? Like those monks that just believe in solitude and they spend all day meditating in a sanctuary. Is that selfish? It seems to go against what Jesus taught when he said to be a light into the world. You said that meditation is about transcendence, or about finding yourself. Your true self. But isn't there a scripture that says he that shall find his life shall loose it, but he that shall loose his life for the gospels sake shall find it? So it seems a little counterproductive in that sense to even be meditating at all. Why not use the time to interact with and serve others? Anyway, that's my rant on the matter. But I'm curious to see what you think about the subject. Are you still there. I'm starting to get worried that you slipped in the shower or something. If you can hear me please respond. We are not getting as many points this way. Well, I'm still getting points haha.
Yeah, I just re entered. Weird
Weird. So what do you think about my proposition?
Well I don't think it's inherently selfish, but I understand what you are saying
Yeah that's what I thought you would say. Anyway that's just what I was thinking about. I guess I'm just not much of a meditator. But I do enjoy having time to think haha. What classes do you have today? I have my busy day. I have a class from 8-1 every hour and I have a lab from 3-5. My first class is Microbiology, followed by Advanced Anatomy. After that I have chronic disease prevention followed by Biochemistry. Then I have physics and finally a microbiology lab.
So I have class from 8-9 and then again at 12:30 to 1:45, plus I am going to the devotional And any free time I am going to spend do homework because I have a ton, plus I have 2 exams tomorrow
The devotional is today? I though BYU did the devotional on Tuesday.
Oh yeah, that's right I got mixed up. My second class is actually 2-3:15, haha
Haha that's okay. It happens to the best of us. Is your second class accounting? You are in an accounting class this semester right? I think I remember you mentioning that. Are you still in the chat or did you get logged out again? I'm going to need to log out soon because class is starting soon. But thanks for chatting this morning I really appreciate it. I know you are busy, but this means a lot. Maybe we can do this every morning. We gotta keep our lead. The contest still has a while left in it. We don't want other people to pass us who are more dedicated. Even if we just chatted for 1 hour each morning we could get almost200,000 per day. Imagine if they paid us cash instead of points. Man that would be cool. I would be a millionaire haha. Well, I wonder how many points we will get from this chat. Stay strong. Don't loose the drive. Talk to you later. Have a good day at school. Let me know if you ever want to meet up. Just because I'm married doesn't mean I don't want to know what's going on. Don't break a tooth like Ethan hahah Peace out homie.