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Why You Don't Want Vipassana

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This is based on a series of PMs I exchanged with someone on LW asking me why I thought vipassana isn’t what most people are looking for and might be actively dangerous. I cleaned it up a bit and reposted it here. Where specifically does it talk about vipassana being set up to break people down? That sounds fairly interesting. Also, I’m usually disappointed by the clarity of presentation in most meditation books. It seems that if you ask questions that are too hard they just say “the map is not the territory” or some koan and expect that to suffice. I prefer a sort of LW-type detailed analysis that taboos words and tries to be precise and clear. Are there any works that you know of that are like that? Daniel Ingram calls that the “mushroom culture” - keep ‘em in the dark and feed them shit. Buddhists have a pretty bad track record of being open and honest about their own practice. I think there are basically three reasons: Hardcore practice doesn’t sell. Most people seeking meditation,

Why You Don't Want Vipassana Why You Don't Want Vipassana Date published: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:00:00 -0700. This is based on a series of PMs I exchanged with someone on LW asking me why I thought vipassana isn’t what most people are looking for and might be actively dangerous. I cleaned it up a bit and reposted it here. Where specifically does it talk about vipassana being set up to break people down? That sounds fairly interesting. Also, I’m usually disappointed by the clarity of presentation in most meditation books. It seems that if you ask questions that are too hard they just say “the map

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