I'm not sure it beats suicide as an option
Try erasing this visual from your mind:
What do you think about when you meditate?
Usually, some form of trying to excavate any kind of negative thing cycling in the mind and turn it toward the positive. For example, when I am annoyed with Dick Cheney, I meditate on how Dick Cheney was my mother in a previous life and nursed me at his breast.
From a New York Times interview with Columbia University professor of Buddhist studies Robert Thurman. HT: Radley Balko, who managed to get Thurman's name wrong. But Thurman is Uma's dad.
What do you think about when you meditate?
Usually, some form of trying to excavate any kind of negative thing cycling in the mind and turn it toward the positive. For example, when I am annoyed with Dick Cheney, I meditate on how Dick Cheney was my mother in a previous life and nursed me at his breast.
From a New York Times interview with Columbia University professor of Buddhist studies Robert Thurman. HT: Radley Balko, who managed to get Thurman's name wrong. But Thurman is Uma's dad.