Mi'sen

Stable mind?

Absent other people, my mind has been almost completely quiet for the last year or so. Interactions trigger lots of messy thoughts, though.

Therapy not intensive meditation. Slow down. I don't have the time to fix crack ups!

What is this, a twitter guru-disciple relationship? You want to give advice, I thank you. You want to teach, teach. This is inappropriate.

Otherwise, I'm quite happy to follow @iwelsh 's instructions - which did not speak against meditating long hours.

Well, Vinay's rather more experienced than I am. So worth considering.

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.

I can do guru. I'm qualified. I've led (well, mostly kicked) a couple of people to enlightenment. But I'm not guru to anybody right now.