Well said. I agree.Quote:
My take on it is that if the meridians are something you can sense, then they represent, by definition, a phenomenological approach to describing the body rather than a scientific one. That doesn't make them wrong. They describe the body as experienced by us. That can make them good for practising as they are.
Those same sensations can be the object of more finely-grained physiological descriptions, but such scientific results might not help us practise. For instance meditating on Guan Yin's name might have a beneficial effect on our nervous system. Suppose someone describes that effect in terms of measurable effects in the brain. Should you then tell the meditator to replace the thought of Guan Yin with a bunch of data?
Or we can see colors. If you say that's not color, that's "just" wavelengths of light interacting with a sense organ and a brain and point to all the data, then sure. I agree. But that doesn't change the fact that what we see are colors.