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Hi Sasha,

If you don’t mind to sacrifice a bit, a few things that you could do outside meditation might help with the dullness.

1. Fasting after noon
2. Eating less meat and more vegetables ( The energy that went into processing meat / digesting food is huge. Vegetables are easier to digest )
3. Drink enough water

During meditation
If you…[Read more]

Hi Sasha,

If you don’t mind to sacrifice a bit, a few things that you could do outside meditation might help with the dullness.

1. Fasting after noon
2. Eating less meat and more vegetables ( The energy that went into processing meat / digesting food is huge. Vegetables are easier to digest )
3. Drink enough water

During meditation
If you…[Read more]

Hi Sasha,

If you don’t mind to sacrifice a bit, a few things that you could do outside meditation might help with the dullness.

1. Fasting after noon
2. Eating less meat and more vegetables ( The energy that went into processing meat / digesting food is huge. Vegetables are easier to digest )
3. Drink enough water

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I wanted to give this link and highly suggest listening to the “Meditation and Insight” retreat, just scroll down the window to find it.
It has some really great info about Insight, which is, after all why we meditate in the first place.

Thanks Ivan, this is great. Will give it a listen.

And thanks to all who have been answering my que…[Read more]

It can also be experienced as a gradient, where the end of the gradient scale is the very strong physical/mental pliancy being discussed. So you could certainly have the beginnings of pliancy which is allowing a long comfortable sit(2-3 hours). This would very likely be accompanied by pleasant bodily sensations and other phenomena — but is not y…

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Two clear markers if you have reached the Stages we’re discussing (from what I have heard/read by Culadasa and his advanced students) is that the pleasure experienced at that point is much, much more stronger than sex. Sometimes a powerful energy current of piti loops along the spine and may lead to mild or even severe shaking/convulsions, the b…

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I am sorry if i may seem to claim that i have reached a certain stage in the practice.
I have been practicing alone for sometimes with no direction from a direct teacher
and simply following the book published by culadasa.
As time goes, i am using the description in the book to measure where i am
but maybe this is a delusion from my part so i…[Read more]

You could look to sit in a more comfortable way, do all kinds of stretches, basically everything possible to make your sit more comfortable. Maybe eventually you would even be able to hit physical pliancy before the sit became uncomfortable for you.

Thanks Ivan. I tend to think that i have hit physical pliancy. I think that’s the reason why i am…[Read more]

The mental and physical pliancy Ted mentioned is different than what you think. If it were already happening for you, then you wouldn’t be experiencing any bodily discomfort at all during your meditation like you describe. On the contrary there would be intense mental and physical pleasure arising. These are stages 8 and 9 respectively.

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Hi Ted, Thanks for replying. I believed i have attained mental and physical pliancy. This has kept me comfortable sitting for 1 hours and 45 minutes but beyond this point, it seems that the ‘sit bones’ suffers and pained started to arise from the buttock.

When I want to meditate for more than an hour, I do it in a comfy chair. If you are at…

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