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I don't think that's it. I've never been one to shy away from any difficult emotional experiences I have (maybe I'm wrong though who knows) I just end up feeli

• throwforfeds 5mo ago
  Ah, I see, that's also very common. Taken all the way it can develop into nihilism, which is one of the two extreme views in Buddhism [1]. I fell into that early on and abandoned my practice for many years. I found that once I found the Mahayana teachings on emptiness [2] and then the stories of the Vajrayana masters [3] the practice became joyful again and not bogged down by some narrow view of what meditation is. [1] https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Two_extremes https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Two_extremes [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81 and particularly as formulated in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajnaparamita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajnaparamita [3] for example Saraha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saraha and Tilopa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilopa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilopa
  • SeriousM 5mo ago
    Did you noticed the Sri Yantra pattern in the Prajnaparamita article? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yantra https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yantra