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Raza replied to the topic Any safe meditation practices left for me? in the forum Meditation 5 years, 2 months ago
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]
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Raza replied to the topic Stage Three: Mastered or Not? in the forum Meditation 5 years, 4 months ago
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]
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Raza replied to the topic SOLVED: Pain in gums confusing attention to breath at nostrils in the forum Meditation 5 years, 6 months ago
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]
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Raza replied to the topic Instances of so called Dark Night in the Suttas? in the forum Principles of Dharma 5 years, 7 months ago
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]
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Raza started the topic SOLVED: Pain in gums confusing attention to breath at nostrils in the forum Meditation 5 years, 7 months ago
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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