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Hi Dennis,

In the personal meditation retreats section of the website (https://dharmatreasure.org/personal-meditation-retreats/) says “The Dharma Treasure Retreat Center is currently being reorganized, and we are NOT taking retreat bookings at this time. Please check back after September 15th.”

I guess they will be taking a decision about the…[Read more]

Hi lemmefly,

Yes, I’ve noticed something similar. In the book The Mind Illuminated it is advised that one should position their eyes as if you were reading a book. This has helped me. However, sometimes by putting the breath sensations in the centre I feel cross-eyed and that leads to a bit of discomfort. When that happens, I try to relax my eyes…[Read more]

I get what you mean Laura by not hitting the happy medium. I’ve been there many times. When I get too serious at the beginning of the sit then I fail to tune in to the good feels of being present. I would say, do not worry too much just now about being in a “lower energy state”. If I understand correctly, that lower energy state is related to…[Read more]

Hi Laura. Congrats on your progress so far, you have a really solid practice in terms of consistency and time! Also it is a great achievement that you are able to catch a distraction in peripheral awareness before it catches your attention!

What I believe has been useful to me to make mind wandering shorter and shorter is that I’ve developed a…[Read more]

Valparaiso added.

Hi, today I logged in for the first time and firefox notified me of this security issue. Let me know if I can be of any help in this matter.

Cheers,
Ricardo

Hello everyone, this is my first post here in this forum.

That’s a great idea! I just filled the survey. Will you tell us here the results of the survey?

Cheers