Neurotic Gradient Descent: Orientation on the Contemplative Path
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A few things I wish I had encountered or known to ask about early on. 1. How long do I need to try a specific technique before I know if ...
A few things I wish I had encountered or known to ask about early on. 1. How long do I need to try a specific technique before I know if it's working? People sometimes stick with a practice for years, see no significant improvement, and are led to believe that this is normal. The benefits of meditation are not some far off thing. An intelligently structured contemplative practice (hereafter practice/s) should have tight feedback loops, otherwise how would you know you're doing anything at all? Where we run into difficulty is that because meditation interacts with all our mind junk, strong…
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