Morford: Meditation for the damned

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[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I love this.

You guys! Great news: Researchers have identified a new, fifth kind of boredom.
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Meditation really is good for you, Harvard is spending a huge pile of money to prove, for the 10,000th time, though this time they really meant it because, you know, it’s Harvard. It’s medical. So I guess we can finally take it seriously.
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Which leads to a curious question: If stress didn’t exist before 1930, if boredom is a modern invention, what the hell were the ancients doing, meditating all the time? What was the point?

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A good one, Mark.