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Yeah. Thanks for lending a helping hand. It's just a lot to ask to change my whole meditation method, my guru, and my sangha. Maybe you can help some people who are just getting started?
You're frustrating to talk to about this stuff, though. You ask how things can be improved, and then when someone suggests something it keeps eventually coming down to "My teacher this" and "My teacher that." Very little of value has happened in this thread as a result, and it's not the only such thread.
Enlightenment is not a Hot Dog. There's more than one way to meditate, and it's good to know multiple ways, because different techniques are appropriate for different disturbances.
You started by expressing dissatisfaction with the results of your meditation. Something ought to change... we are trying to point you at a potential direction to change in.
@fivebells is that you recorded in the hotdog link?
I like the hotdog thing. Sensitivity is probably similar to the 5 indiryas (openness, clarity, and sensitivity). The difference is my teacher shows us how to 'stop' and not open the doorway to states, whereas the hot dog guy says to tinker with the sensitivity to get a particular successful result. That is a great approach. My meditation there is no such thing as a bad meditation, though there are experiences of significance.
Yeah. Thanks for lending a helping hand. It's just a lot to ask to change my whole meditation method, my guru, and my sangha. Maybe you can help some people who are just getting started?
Hi Jeffrey: In " The Good Heart" by the Dalai Lama, he says a Christian should just make the effort to be a good Christian. I think that is profound advise. Why change what is getting results for you? When you get a bad result you look for something better. Your comments and regular activity in these pages, leads me to think you are doing pretty well. We all have difficulties-keep up your meditation and develop great attachment to your Guru. Krishna used to preach the path of Bhakti-love of the Divine or Guru. That is very valuable. Best, Dennis
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I think you were the only one who tried to get me to totally change methods.
Because it's a different tradition? @fivebells is that you recorded in the hotdog link?
make the effort to be a good Christian. I think that is profound advise. Why change what is getting results for you? When you get a bad result you look for something better. Your comments and regular activity in these pages, leads me to think you are doing pretty well. We all have difficulties-keep up your meditation and develop great attachment to your Guru. Krishna used to preach the path of Bhakti-love of the Divine or Guru. That is very valuable. Best, Dennis