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Ah, ah :D I don't even know if enlightening exist, to be honest. For me, it doesn't matter. I don't need the promise of something potentially amazing in the f

Ah, ah :D I don't even know if enlightening exist, to be honest. For me, it doesn't matter. I don't need the promise of something potentially amazing in the future, I'm just interested in something that makes my life better right now. In the center, I only met regular people with ordinary problems, even teachers. Getting a hang on suffering, one step at a time. Sometimes being completly off the mark, because humans are humans. Meditation is also probably the most boring thing I ever encountered. It's unspectacular, tedious, slow and utterly mundane. But it's the only thing that I've tried that brings consistent, increasing benefits in life. I wish for everybody to find something that is as good for them, awakening or not.

nprateem 4y ago
I've spent a few years meditating most mornings and evenings and I'd hoped for more. No fireworks no bliss... feels like I'm not making much progress. But I've read about enough people experiencing much more I wonder where I'm going wrong
- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  All the teachers I practiced with repeated to me: don't look for something special. Don't look for bliss. If bliss comes, don't pay attention to it. Bliss is not the aim of this meditation. I don't know what meditation you are practicing, and there are so many of them I wouldn't be able to give any advice that would work with your own practice. So I can't know if you are doing something wrong. What I know, however, is that in the Vipassana meditation following Sayagyi U Ba Khin tradition, one would advice to focus on practice. There is no expectation. Nothing to achieve. In this tradition, your role is to provide efforts, but one is not responsible for the result. Things are just rising and passing away. Suffering. Bliss. Anything else. Just appearing and disapearing. Meditation is just the tool to help us live through that. Peace is not bliss. Peace means you don't need bliss, nor are you hindered by suffering. Easier said than done, and that's why it's a long path. It's a lifetime practice. You start again every day. One day, you realize you feel a bit more peaceful and happy than you used to. You smile. And you sit once again.
  - nprateem 4y ago
    Have you read MCTB? I feel I'm still in stage 1, maybe 2, but definitely haven't reached the arising and passing away... Still, I find labelling useful. Going to try to find a Mahasi retreat
    - BiteCode_dev 4y ago
      I haven't. Good luck, I hope you'll find something useful for you.

nprateem 4y ago

I've spent a few years meditating most mornings and evenings and I'd hoped for more. No fireworks no bliss... feels like I'm not making much progress. But I've read about enough people experiencing much more I wonder where I'm going wrong

BiteCode_dev 4y ago
All the teachers I practiced with repeated to me: don't look for something special. Don't look for bliss. If bliss comes, don't pay attention to it. Bliss is not the aim of this meditation. I don't know what meditation you are practicing, and there are so many of them I wouldn't be able to give any advice that would work with your own practice. So I can't know if you are doing something wrong. What I know, however, is that in the Vipassana meditation following Sayagyi U Ba Khin tradition, one would advice to focus on practice. There is no expectation. Nothing to achieve. In this tradition, your role is to provide efforts, but one is not responsible for the result. Things are just rising and passing away. Suffering. Bliss. Anything else. Just appearing and disapearing. Meditation is just the tool to help us live through that. Peace is not bliss. Peace means you don't need bliss, nor are you hindered by suffering. Easier said than done, and that's why it's a long path. It's a lifetime practice. You start again every day. One day, you realize you feel a bit more peaceful and happy than you used to. You smile. And you sit once again.
- nprateem 4y ago
  Have you read MCTB? I feel I'm still in stage 1, maybe 2, but definitely haven't reached the arising and passing away... Still, I find labelling useful. Going to try to find a Mahasi retreat
  - BiteCode_dev 4y ago
    I haven't. Good luck, I hope you'll find something useful for you.