People Choose Electric Shocks Over Sitting Quietly for 15 Minutes

[Risho]

HAHAHAH And maybe some nachos

Gassho,

Kyonin
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I'm there! hahahah

Gassho,

Risho
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[Jakuden]

This is important. Sometimes I am tempted to do Zazen to escape boredom (or resistance to) life, which totally defeats the point. And sometimes Zazen is boring (which maybe is the point??) But, of course, sitting is supposed to be "pointless..."

Gassho,
Sierra
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[Ekai]

I am not really surprised by this study. We are so conditioned to distract ourselves with the media, tv, working long hours, etc. Distractions are easier to deal with since they mask what's underneath us. Sitting in silence and being bored opens up the things within us that we are afraid to see.

[michaeljc]

It's a symptom of insufficient physical exercise IMO

I know of professions in which the percentage choosing shocks would be zero

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m

[Jishin]

People Choose Electric Shocks Over Sitting Quietly for 15 Minutes

Hi,

A bird flies and a fish swims. Lightnings shock. Mountains sit. Some people are lightning and others mountains. No choice involved. It just is.

Gassho, Jishin

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[Jeremy]

I am not really surprised by this study. We are so conditioned to distract ourselves with the media, tv, working long hours, etc.

I agree. I doubt the psychologists who conducted these experiments, or the reporters who reported on them, were surprised either, despite the "people prefer pain..." shock horror reports. Psychologists play games, journalists play games - just like the rest of us.

Gassho
Jeremy
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