Stoked to be doing another interview with @Culadasa tomorrow!
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Maybe you can get him to weigh in on the recent meditation and attention debate.
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My contention is that much of the benefits of meditation roll directly out of the increase in attentional acuity, rather than something we need learn by following doctrines.
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OK. I def agree that attention is awesome and doctrines aren't. My contention (since we're having contentions today
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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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Working with people on meditation practice all day every day, I'm really sensitized to how dangerous and destabilizing no-holds-barred, go-for-broke concentration can be for a lot of folks.
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And for the issues that do arise, I’d say find a good therapist. That’s what I did.
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Again, so more than just concentration is required. (Sorry to harp on this.)
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