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.
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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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Life kind of fell apart. Lost job, lost substantial long service leave, deep depression for about 10 months. I'm much better now but still recovering on the householder path. Haven't regained a solid practice. Lots of lessons hard won.
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I wouldn't say I have "bad" trauma in an acute sense. More long-term insidious confusing internal family system stuff. Has a big, ongoing affect on relationships though.
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Yeah, the "small" traumas are often the most destructive. Bigger traumatic events tend to get siloed, have limited emotional ties.
Anything that happens in early childhood or as part of an ongoing family dynamic, though, will affect huge chunks of your emotional being.
Probably not giving big traumas enough credit there, but point is even relatively benign family problems can snowball into big blockages.
And when those go, or even just get triggered, there's a lot that can go with them in the flood.
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I definitely sense this but haven't had a lot of success in removing the logs.
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