Therapy not intensive meditation. Slow down. I don't have the time to fix crack ups!
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What is this, a twitter guru-disciple relationship?
You want to give advice, I thank you. You want to teach, teach. This is inappropriate.
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Otherwise, I'm quite happy to follow 's instructions - which did not speak against meditating long hours.
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Well, Vinay's rather more experienced than I am. So worth considering.
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FWIW, there a loads of lay practitioners doing way in excess of an hour a day, all over the world. Especially in ngakpa traditions - where householders often meditate even more than monks who get saddled with monastery work.
Although, that tradition emphasises the rôle of Lama.
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Yeah. Cutting Machinery is structure as it is (three ten minute rounds, emphasis on emotional clearing work) to stabilize practitioners.
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Yeah. I think it’s important that people recognise that contemplative systems valorises different values, which shifts the structure of the whole thing.
If you optimise for stability, it’s clear that you’ll get a different process, and different flavours of dissonance.
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So in hindsight, I was making an ass of myself here. Sorry, Vinay.
On the other hand, I didn't find Cutting Machinery stabilizing at all.
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While I was doing just an hour a day, but steadily for, I started shedding and reconstituting parts of personality - seemingly overnight.
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- along with some pretty intense awakening experiences and shifts in consciousness on one hand, bizarre sensory stuff on the other.
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I literally stopped meditating completely for several months and the experiences just kept on coming. Was told by more qualified ppl to go-
- through it rather than wait it out, as, quote "this won't stop until it's done", hence I figured I'd try to bulldoze through it now, alone
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that doesn't mean reacting like that to instruction was exactly justified, but I'm sort of at a loss as to what to do here.
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