Dharma Treasure Community | Maaike | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/maaike/activity/ Activity feed for Maaike. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 0492d3ac45dc4d56a4ae07009abd0c5c Maaike replied to the topic How to start again after many failed attempts? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/how-to-start-again-after-many-failed-attempts/#post-3374 Sun, 23 Sep 2018 17:29:22 +0000 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]

]]> 849530c0efd57e6184d47fd76d998c0c Maaike replied to the topic The importance of full lotus posture? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/the-importance-of-full-lotus-posture/#post-2641 Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:42:02 +0000 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]

]]> b3d865b9f6cb0bdd7310cdef5cfa72fd Maaike replied to the topic Agitating piti and confusion of the object in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/agitating-piti-and-confusion-of-the-object/#post-2233 Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:36:51 +0000 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.

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