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Thank you for saying this! There are hundreds of meditation types and techniques, with many different effects, just like there are treatments in medicine. Med
by throwaway423122 6y ago
Thank you for saying this!
There are hundreds of meditation types and techniques, with many different effects, just like there are treatments in medicine.
Meditation is being sold as casual activity, one-size-fits-all, often by people who received only few years of training, if not months.
Please look for credited teachers with decades-long monastic experience. Ask them difficult questions.
- kanyethegreat 6y agoHow do you find these people? What difficult questions are you asking in order to vet them?
- throwaway423123 6y agoIf you are doing 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes sessions every day you don't need teacher. It’s a simple mental exercise. You may feel no effect on your mind to caffeine kick kind of effect. But if you are doing more 30 minutes per day or specially more than one hour, you need some one guid you. Best teachers are people spending more time in meditation than you are. How to find these people are different from region to region. I’m Theravada Buddhist and we have some monks living in jungles or border of jungles, they are full time meditators, wake up early -> meditation -> breakfast -> meditation -> lunch -> meditation(no dinner) -> sleep. we usually go to these monks for instructions when doing series meditation.
- MaxBarraclough 6y ago> Ask them difficult questions. How is a beginner qualified to ask difficult questions, or to assess the answers?