The pragmatic Dharma group in Portland is full of good people. Tonight I when to a book club on Daniel Ingram's book Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha.
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Found it in 2012 online when there wasn't much else online. Having discovered meditation as a tool of mental cultivation but not knowing to what end, it served as a signal that the rabbit hole went pretty deep.
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If I have a main take away from the meet up and the section I reread it's that the models you install as mental constructs can shape your experience of the path by creating self fulfilling expectations.
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MTCB is really well knowing for doing some hardcore mapping the Progress of Insight, territory also known as the Dark Night (of the Soul).
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A fella I met says he spent 7 years in it, he thinks this happened because he was too focused on these Knowledge of Suffering having read the book right before going into a retreat.
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The way it's written, it's seems like MTCB represents the POI as a never ending cycle which having begun you can never leave but can find relief at the end before the next cycle.
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The POI section reads a bit like a stream of consciousness medical reference. And it's useful as a reference but it widely diverges from what a single person might expect to experience.
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Like reading WebMD, you could be primed to see things which aren't symptoms as symptoms, except in this case you can catch the disease, so to speak, by believing you have it.
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