Marc Schröder, Author at Tiny Buddha

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Marc is a software engineer and meditator of many years, trying to live a meaningful life. With his wife, a licensed psychiatric nurse, he has created the app Mindfulness to go which offers mindfulness practices applicable to everyday life. Download it today for iPhone and Android from www.mindfulness-to-go.com/en/get-the-app. As a reader of Tiny Buddha, you’ll get the first month free by entering the code “tinybuddha.”

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Why I Don’t Want to Become Enlightened Anymore

By Marc Schröder

“Being free isn’t actually that easy.” ~Unknown

I’ve always been an achiever. I’ve worked hard to reach goals: I was good at school, then got a good job, and ended up making good money. My colleagues valued my clear view of the goal, my ability to break down the big task into parts that one can work on, casting it all as individual problems that one can solve. I was diligent, hard-working, and reliable. An employer’s dream employee.

At the same time, I’ve always had a wish to be “free.” Not so much from outer constraints, but from inner ones—depressive …