Stoked to be doing another interview with @Culadasa tomorrow!
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So what you are saying is that there is a potential hazard in using a simple mediation technique to develop attentional skill if it is not founded in some kind of moral scheme?
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I'm more concerned with the idea that just concentration alone will do it. Like I posted in the "doubling down" tweet, more finesse is required to keep people happy and healthy. Just brute force attention can for many be too much.
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I'm watching this debate and I think you are both pursuing different end goals? Jody seems to be erring on the side of no ego fixation and Michael on the side of dissolving ego-fixation but retaining a tether to developmental and moral play. Is this accurate?
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Maybe. I'm really just wanting to point out that the instruction "just get as concentrated as possible" (which is not exactly what Jody is saying, but can easily be misconstrued as what he is saying) is somewhat misleading and also possibly dangerous.
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My instruction would be to quietly and without judgement bring attention back to object, that this gesture is really what it is all about, and that there is no goal other than to continue this gesture in meditation for as long as you are alive. The benefits will fall from this.
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"Attention is the most basic form of love."https://www.tarabrach.com/attention-the-most-basic-form-of-love/ …
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I’d like to contend here that just putting attention back to focus when blocks arise is the best way to deal with them, but I’m less than 100% sure of that.
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Just doubling down on the concentration in some cases can cause all sorts of kundalini crackups, PTSD meltdowns, mental fractures, psychotic breaks, and so forth. An understanding and familiarity with 1) equanimity and 2) something like metta or "focus on positive" is required.
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) is that attention on its own can lead to real trouble. And that even increasing attention requires understanding how to work w/ emotional/mental blocks.