Does Siddhasana cause health problems?

[Magnanimous]

I don't want to do lotus pose because it fucks up your knees. I just sit in a chair.

But Om Swami recommends going cross-legged. Any reason to keep sitting in a chair instead of training siddhasana?

[Leo Gura]

Beware of conformity.

Why are you copying him?

[Magnanimous]

Because he said in his book from his 10,000+ hours of experience sitting cross legged is best for meditation, then sitting in chair.

What are your two cents?

[Leo Gura]

Hindus sit cross-legged because they are too poor for chairs.

[cetus]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Hindus sit cross-legged because they are too poor for chairs.

 Jeez! Lol

[Magnanimous]

51 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

Hindus sit cross-legged because they are too poor for chairs.

"They also wipe their ass with their hand." - Leo Gura

[Ajay0]

57 minutes ago, Magnanimous said:

"They also wipe their ass with their hand." - Leo Gura

This is true. 

The method of using toilet paper first came up in China in the sixth century ad, and was used extensively by mass production by the fourteenth century in China.

This concept was copied by the west in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1857, the Joseph Gayetty introduced the first packaged commercial toilet paper in the US and toilet paper was popularised in europe in the twentieth century.

[Ajay0]

2 hours ago, Magnanimous said:

I don't want to do lotus pose because it fucks up your knees. I just sit in a chair.

But Om Swami recommends going cross-legged. Any reason to keep sitting in a chair instead of training siddhasana?

I use a combination of lotus poses as well as sitting in chair due to the comfort involved.

But I found that sitting in lotus position or padmasana helped in calming and centering my mind faster than sitting in a chair. So I use a chair or lotus position as per my needs, which is comfort or faster calming of the mind.

I have elaborated more in this post of mine.