> if say Tibetan prayer gongs, or trees swaying in the wind, are your Pavlovian triggers for relaxed centering They may be, but only after you have trained the

> if say Tibetan prayer gongs, or trees swaying in the wind, are your Pavlovian triggers for relaxed centering They may be, but only after you have trained them. You can get a quick dopamine hit from say browsing reddit and feel relaxed but it’s not deep. The point of meditation is to train the mind to do that thing - sit still, focus on the mantra, whatever it is you’re doing. The byproduct is that over many repetitions this state becomes more natural and after many more repetitions even accessible at will. The AR monastery will be nothing more than another shallow fix without training it to be so. The goal state is fairly independent of external stimuli. I see AR/VR as being nothing more than another potential distraction.