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Re: Anyone out there experience this?
Telling someone to just go on an ego diet after they've gone through an experience like Hamsaka's is like telling a fat person to just stop eating and exercise more. Those are the necessary actions, … (View Post)
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Re: Timing
I don't do it any more (which gets me into trouble sometimes), but I used to do 15 minutes of resting-with-the breath samatha at the start, and 10 minutes at the end. This was based on advice in Ken … (View Post)
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Re: Anyone out there experience this?
(Quote) I don't fundamentally care about fancy, deep or shallow, I care about what works. But different people have different capacities, and a lot of people make recommendations based on what works … (View Post)1 -
Re: Anyone out there experience this?
@Hamsaka, the risk with good vipassana experiences like that is that they can entrain your mind to turn towards the stress, the first part of the first noble truth, even when you don't have the capac… (View Post)
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Re: Anyone out there experience this?
@genkaku, I think that's an advanced perspective which comes from having developed a capacity for stable attention while watching potentially destabilizing defilements. If you have that capacity for … (View Post)1