I think many people on the TMI subreddit would like to hear about this. If you don’t have an account I can pass it on.

Alex (from the Passadhi group)

The more experience you have the more appropriate it is to trust your instincts. But it is helpful to not sswitch around too much and not switch because what ytou are doing right now is just not working. When it gets difficult it may be helpful to stay with you practice.

That being said, adding some metta in the beginning can be very…[Read more]

it seems that one thing that comes up repeatedly here or in the reddit forum, is the wish for practitioners to connect with others in their city. It seems more and more local groups are forming. But how do we find these, how do we make sure people know about it?

I am wondering if we should try to make a directory of local…[Read more]

the TMI community on Reddit has started a map, where ywhere you can put your location or see who is in your city. Most people put their Reddit username on the map, I will also add my Dharma treasure forum name.

Please do not share your exact location / home address for privacy…[Read more]

we now have a first date, on Wednesday 8th at 19:00 we want to meet at the park cafe. Further announcements on the discord or on http://www.ak80.org/tmi.html

with metta
Alex

Great, that you are interested. Things are moving quickly now and a first meeting might be already next week, see https://doodle.com/poll/b3hsuavyh53m7w77

We have also started a group chat on discord: https://discord.gg/dMxxHpc

Let me know if you have trouble with or questions about the discord

Take care
Alex

sorry for not finding a better category to post this…

I am looking to find mediators and TMI practitioners in or around Munich. I am hoping to organize a regular meetup to discuss practice or meditate together. We already found some people that are interested on Insight Timer, but there are sure to be more.

You can message me directly…[Read more]

Such a great endeavor, I was thinking along some of these lines too… A wiki is a great start, I have already sent Blake a couple of links to talks, articles and podcast interviews outside dharma treasure.

I second the motion, that it would be good to keep things together as much as possible and have tge Dharma treasure website as the focal…[Read more]

in the last couple of months I discovered so many helpful resources on the internet related to TMI. Articles written by Culadasa, published in online magazines. Videos and podcasts, like in Deconstructing Yourself, Buddha At The Gaspump and so on and of course his Patroen Q&As. Then we have blogs by dedicated people in his community…[Read more]

You are very keenly observing many things. Let my try to tackle them one by one.

>> * I’m unable to keep the attention on the breath for more than three cycles, at most. One to three cycles, and it’s forgetting into mind wandering.

I quickly scanned your post from last year. In relation to what Blake wrote, do you still agr…[Read more]

In wonder how big the role of rational examination and the will to renounce this belief in self-existence is? Does it come on its own, is it purely a result of insight and a non-rational experience / examination of reality mainly from meditation? Or do we need to bolster it with a sort of decision “I do not belief in this” and examine…[Read more]

oh I see, I have not heard of that and will look for some information. That sounds a bit like the opposite of renunciation: not renouncing unpleasant emotions or denying them, but applying them as an opportunity to learn and mindfully examine them and their effects. Is there a post / video you can point me to? I’ll also monitor this…[Read more]

I do not understand what do you mean by “usage of unpleasant emotions”? Can you make an example, please? You can not renounce having an emotion. But, with practice, you can work on how you relate to unpleasant emotions and how to react, i.e. do you act them out or do you allow them to just be and base your action on a wholesome emotion…[Read more]

I hope I picked the right (sub)-forum.

I can’t help but to be interested in participating in the teacher training program. Besides many other questions on what is expected in terms of experience and so on, I have a very practical questions around the times of the online classes. Being based in Europe, certain times would be very hard to…[Read more]

Cool, I was in my second eSangha(Europe) meeting on Tuesday :). What tucker said to someone else there was, that concentration was not a good measure of “progress” in meditation. But the understanding of how the mind works and what it dies and a growing ability to work with whatever is going…[Read more]

thanks for writing! Yes well, I also have / had my moments of doubt, thinking “this isn’t working” or “when I am meditating with this strong dullness, always spacing out, I am sure making it worse”. But for now I decided to take just don’t get hung up on this. What is said in the book… “the only bad meditation is the one you didn’t…[Read more]

After steady “progress” the beginnings of longer concentrated periods now have thrown me back hard with heavy dullness setting in very quickly. I am not yet able to catch it before it gets to strong. But for I while it seemed like totally…[Read more]