Longing to read a meditation book where the author doesn't spend a fourth of the text trying to convince me awakening == "the next step in evolution."
This is such a nauseatingly modernist, bad evolutionary biology perspective. Can you just stop?
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Ah nuts I’m breaking my Twitter silence again
Try Lorin Roche. Instinctive meditation. Trying to keep the meditation-geek hordes away from that dude, but also trying to avoid other extreme of not saying anything about a teacher I find valuable.
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I am reading this specific book because recommended it and I trust his opinion.
Author just had the standard messianic boilerplate mixed in with good technique.
Will add Roche to my list, though!
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I'm very much not here to hear anyone's dreams of universal enlightenment, but that doesn't mean they don't have useful tekne!
It just sucks that they waste my time with these asininities.
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I have a hunch there’ll be things in Roche’s work that you find refreshing. He’s a neat dude, interesting backstory. Completely different goals and approach than Cutting Machine. Roche is working much more in the lane of “meditation as nutrition” style, than...
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Oh, for sure. I'm so far down the Cutting Machinery rabbit hole now that seeing it all the way through is a top priority, though.
Like I'm not going to get this far through the job and then just say "actually turn the machine off, I'd rather go be a chef!"
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Yep. I think if you’re quite far in, keep going, (and “festina lente” when/if that’s called for). What I love about what Vinay did is how much emphasis he put on using other resources (asana, tai chi, various psychotherapy modalities) as supports for people going all the way.
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Oh, yes. In fact I cheated a bit by using some somatic trauma therapy to accompany the emotional processing. That *really* sped things up.
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Curious, did you have a 'dark night' experience following Cutting Machinery? I did and stopped using the method.
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Not exactly.
The emotional processing step can be risky without grounding (or if you've got bad trauma!) - I had some crazy emotion, but that was mostly avoidable.
Depending on what you mean by "dark night", it seems more common with Buddhist anatta - what was happening to you?
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