<story><title>People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study</title><url>https://qz.com/1307380/yoga-and-meditation-boost-your-ego-say-psychology-researchers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>People need to understand that the stuff like meditation that&amp;#x27;s popular right now and gets taught is just a very small subset of Buddhist practice. Real Buddhist teachings go much further. Same for yoga. Yoga is meant to be a way of life but what most Westerners see is just a form of aerobics with a few spiritual words sprinkled in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drb91</author><text>Ironically, the biggest evidence of this here might be the idea that the ego should be kept as small as possible. Whether or not it&amp;#x27;s a real thing, it still needs maintenance (arguably a huge benefit of meditation), and there&amp;#x27;s probably a healthy size (though I hate this spatial metaphor; people are far more complex than that).</text></comment>
<story><title>People’s egos get bigger after meditation and yoga, says a new study</title><url>https://qz.com/1307380/yoga-and-meditation-boost-your-ego-say-psychology-researchers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>People need to understand that the stuff like meditation that&amp;#x27;s popular right now and gets taught is just a very small subset of Buddhist practice. Real Buddhist teachings go much further. Same for yoga. Yoga is meant to be a way of life but what most Westerners see is just a form of aerobics with a few spiritual words sprinkled in.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JackFr</author><text>Modern yoga has little if anything to do with any ancient spiritual practice:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;currency&amp;#x2F;iyengar-invention-yoga&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.newyorker.com&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;currency&amp;#x2F;iyengar-inventio...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>