-
Maaike replied to the topic How to start again after many failed attempts? in the forum Meditation 7 years ago
From your wording it sounds like you are being really hard on yourself.
“Losing lots of progress due to injury/illness/a shitty week following a night out (all of which make sitting impossible or dramatically increase dullness, and finding motivation to continue again after regressing is difficult).”
Regressing is inevitable. Culadasa writes…[Read more]
-
Maaike replied to the topic The importance of full lotus posture? in the forum Meditation 7 years, 7 months ago
I think it is not a good idea to force any posture. More specifically, I think a lot of westerners are not used to sitting on the ground, because we sit in chairs from an early age. Lotus posture is a nice idea, but I suspect most people need to do quite a bit of prep work for this, months or even years of yoga and/or stretching, before doing full…[Read more]
-
Maaike replied to the topic Agitating piti and confusion of the object in the forum Meditation 8 years ago
I want to jump in and thank you all for this thread, I have been referring back to it quite a number of times. It’s very reassuring that other have the same kind of stuff coming up and it keeps me motivated.
