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Otherwise, I'm quite happy to follow

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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-

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- 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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I stop meditating entirely, I'll keep experiencing shifts - but with no meditative practice to stabilize them. I do an hour a day, I guess-

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-they start coming faster again. I wanted to short-circuit the process. That might be a terrible idea, but that was the reasoning.

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we'll talk later. I did give you specific exercises some time back which you chose not to do.