First (actually twelfth since 2013) PhD rejection... One step closer to that mountain hut...
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Lucky #13 wraps it up... Was another writing sample on meditation too much? Could it be the funky-sounding name of my last place of enrollment (a monastery)? Burning incense and browsing cave options...
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Sorry to hear! I read elsewhere that graduate programs actually look down upon those who mention or write about their own meditation practice :/ Has this been your experience/do you know if there’s some truth to this?
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This time, I didn't mention my own practice (in so many words) but the writing sample (a phenomenological analysis of autobiographical meditation accounts provided by an eminent Chinese monk, drawing primarily on Yogācāra scriptural sources) might have given too much away...
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