Dharma Treasure Community | Raza | Activity http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/members/raza/activity/ Activity feed for Raza. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:53 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=4.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b3c24905e95d3fd62f9e3cc452378f1d Raza replied to the topic Any safe meditation practices left for me? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/any-safe-meditation-practices-left-for-me/#post-3544 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 19:45:52 +0000 I’ve experienced something very similar: practicing TMI at home, doing a vipassana retreat, going psychotic and started ‘hearing voices’ – that is to say, experiencing some of my own thoughts as if they were coming from ‘someone else’. Had a breakdown for a few months, did and then came off antipsychotics, the whole drama.

What I eventually…[Read more]

]]> a0d0d4434ba60375d7943d9edb827eea Raza replied to the topic Stage Three: Mastered or Not? in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/stage-three-mastered-or-not/#post-3475 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 10:13:14 +0000 I was in a similar position when I started working with TMI; I’d gotten to stage 4 (and occasionally 5) on the breath with my own ‘mini-techniques’, and noticed that I lacked some of the skills TMI encourages learning in stages 1-3. In particular, the peripheral awareness distinction, metacognitive awareness, and enjoying the ‘aha moment’ were…[Read more]

]]> 2ce2cf259c7749f4242d3a308e71fdd6 Raza replied to the topic SOLVED: Pain in gums confusing attention to breath at nostrils in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/pain-in-gums-confusing-attention-to-breath-at-nostrils/#post-3406 Sat, 06 Oct 2018 12:09:04 +0000 Hi Eric,

I’m curious what your suggestion was going to be, but the problem I described above has been resolved in another way; I switched objects to the breath at the abdomen, both because it’s further away from the gums and because I’ve read that it’s more relaxing than observing the breath at the nostrils (as I tend to overexcitation more than…[Read more]

]]> a943521012d8b96f459f14df5ed4b988 Raza replied to the topic Instances of so called Dark Night in the Suttas? in the forum Principles of Dharma http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/instances-of-so-called-dark-night-in-the-suttas/#post-3365 Tue, 18 Sep 2018 14:42:03 +0000 According to Culadasa, there is not; also according to him, this would be because following the eightfold path on a traditional path to insight is highly effective at preventing extended dark night experiences, and thus these experience were much rarer in traditional contexts than they are with western ‘pure meditation’ practices. I just listened…[Read more]

]]> 0ee6631ae912907e5e6353b1ee8d77e1 Raza started the topic SOLVED: Pain in gums confusing attention to breath at nostrils in the forum Meditation http://dharmatreasurecommunity.org/forums/topic/pain-in-gums-confusing-attention-to-breath-at-nostrils Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:03:49 +0000 Hi everyone! Thanks for being here and hosting/participating in an environment where people help each other overcome the obstacles in their meditation practices. I have a question I was hoping to receive external insight on.

I’m around stage 4, following TMI instructions and attending to the sensations of the breath at the nostril. My problem…[Read more]

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