Oligopsony comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (July 2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Oligopsony 19 July 2012 12:47:44AM 1 point [-]

So I suspect it's unlikely that the mumbo-jumbo is strictly necessary to most eudaemonic approaches, Eastern or Western. I expect it'd be difficult to extract from a lot of them, though.

It would be difficult to do it on your own, but it's not very hard to find e.g. guides to meditation that have been bowlderized of all the mysterious magical stuff.