{"id":268063,"date":"2017-05-13T08:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=268063"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:27:51","slug":"a-zen-master-explains-why-positive-thinking-is-terrible-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/a-zen-master-explains-why-positive-thinking-is-terrible-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"A Zen master explains why \u201cpositive thinking\u201d is terrible advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>Absolutely true!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been told to just\u00a0\u201cthink positive\u201d\u00a0and your problems will go away?<\/p>\n<p>Or that to achieve your goals in life, all you have to do is visualize it with positive intent?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a philosophy that\u2019s been popular for decades thanks to books like\u00a0How to win Friends and Influence People and\u00a0Think and Grow Rich.<\/p>\n<p>But is it really helping us live more\u00a0meaningful and fulfilling lives? Not exactly.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, according to Zen master and spiritual guru,\u00a0Osho, it might just be one of the biggest \u201cbullshit philosophies\u201d there is.<\/p>\n<p>Why \u201cpositive thinking\u201d won\u2019t help you out<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he thinks of the \u201cpositive thinking\u201d movement, Osho believes that it\u2019s doing more harm than good. Why? Because it means we\u2019re denying reality and being dishonest to ourselves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ideapod.com\/zen-master-explains-positive-thinking-terrible-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/ideapod.com\/zen-master-explains-positive-thinking-terrible-advice\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Absolutely true!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":268064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}