Debugging Doubt (pt 2) - by Owen - blissbrah's blog
“Doubt is the only thing holding you back from enlightenment,” Frank Yang said to me in October 2023 on a jhana retreat, and he was right. It took me until a month or so ago to realize that, and maybe that realization would’ve been faster had I started the direct pointing / fetters approach sooner. My learning journey with the approach of direct pointing to drop the fetters began when I came across this unfiltered guy on meditation twitter named Michael. He claimed to have hit Streamentry, this magical trait that I aped into seeking after reading The Mind Illuminated and scrolling r/Streamentry (without really understanding all the available practice traditions out there). And he did so after a week of strolling around Barcelona doing some exercises he curated in a couple page google doc. I’d been wanting Streamentry, Enlightenment, or the real goods that these meditation folks advertise since I started meditating in 2018. “It is possible that the wall of knowing is so thick that simpl
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