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Data-driven education for life-changing meditative bliss. It used to take thousands of hours. We teach it in a week.
Joined November 2023
📌 New retreat dates announced for fall! 🍂 - Online Full-Time: 9/27-10/4 - Online Work-Compatible: 10/9-10/19 - In-Person: 10/26-11/2 at Kripalu (MA, near NYC) – few spots left!! - In-Person: 11/9-11/16 at Zephyr Point (NV, at Lake Tahoe) – SOLD OUT, trying to add capacity
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A good sign that you're actually processing your emotions: the emotion changes. e.g. looking under anger & finding grief, or under sadness, resentment. Like an onion, each layer peels back to reveal new territory. Meet whatever comes up with radical acceptance and it will change
@MaikkiTao Challenging emotions have wholesome intentions and want the best for you but they're kind of maladaptive at it. When approached in a safe loving container, you can appreciate what they've been trying to do and process underlying unfelt emotions, which can lead to life changes
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and the next step not pictured: direct love towards those feelings and realize they were on your side the whole time
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Buzzing sensations (“piti”) from the jhanas are analogous to the frisson/chills/goosebumps some experience from listening to music. The goosebumps don't come because you make them happen directly, they arise naturally from being deeply absorbed in the music and what it evokes in
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Measuring progress in jhana practice and beyond – Part 1 On Jhourney retreats we talk about learning milestones within jhana skill development. Those are akin to the following (please don’t assume my hipfiring and interpretations of anything meditation related is representative
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People get afraid that having direct access of the feeling of joy or pleasure will mean they have no motivation to be active participants in society, but from what we’ve observed, this isn’t the case at all
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This is a common objection. Several things going on here: 1) You *already* experience joy unrelated to accomplishments, even if you feel like it should *only* come from accomplishments. Joy spontaneously arises when you encounter something delightful, like cute dogs or sunny
Jhanas feel like "cheating" to me. I've got a Puritanical sense that joy should come from tangible accomplishments. Am I just misunderstanding jhanas?
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Practicing the jhanas is not about superimposing positive emotions over your current experience. It’s about practicing the move of mental surrender which *then* makes room for the spontaneous arising of joy — less forcing, more allowing
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one of the best ways you can experience this is turn on a cold shower, and notice what happens to your body as you’re about to go in, then train yourself to unbrace… and then apply that same move to everything in increasingly subtle ways
meditation might have the worst pedagogy of any field. they solved the cause* and cure** to suffering but hid it behind weird poems and deities * clenching and resistance ** train to not resist, see how you gradually feel way better, see the non-specialness of self-sensations
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Internal reference points for upper bounds of happiness are limited by previous peak experiences, or secondhand accounts of peak life experiences – neither of which prepare you for the scale itself being broken, challenging what you even believe happiness to be. It turns out
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We just sold out on both online retreats too! We still have a few spots for the in-person retreat at Kripalu (with no waitlist) in October. After that, we won't have more retreats until 2026.
📌 New retreat dates announced for fall! 🍂 - Online Full-Time: 9/27-10/4 - Online Work-Compatible: 10/9-10/19 - In-Person: 10/26-11/2 at Kripalu (MA, near NYC) – few spots left!! - In-Person: 11/9-11/16 at Zephyr Point (NV, at Lake Tahoe) – SOLD OUT, trying to add capacity
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People think getting into the jhanas requires slamming the gas, only to learn it's all about letting go of the brakes (i.e. resistance to emotions/subjective experience) while keeping hands on the steering wheel, and then realize pursuing any goal in life is like that too
Meditation is crazy bc before it you thinking you’re doing “a lot” but you’re just fighting your own resistance. Gas and breaks simultaneously. And after you “do nothing” (tiny gas) and eveything still happens (no breaks)
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@CurtTigges when stress and anxiety diminish greatly it can take time to realize that you now have freedom to build and act from a motivational system you want to have rather than the one you inherit from your reactivity
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Big difference between "crying open" (the one in QT, which allows emotions to move through you and be processed w/o resistance, leaves you tired but relaxed after) vs "crying closed" (emotions not processed, spinning wheels reliving same experience, leaves you equally/more tense)
depth of in-breath after cathartic crying is a good indication for whether that batch of emotion has been fully processed
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Post-retreat, he noticed more ease in handling conflict in his relationships. This is the real fruit of practice: showing up as a better person in the life you're already living. It's not just about the altered states!
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Yash wrote a beautiful post about his retreat, and this part stands out: the way we teach the jhanas is about welcoming all emotions that arise instead of blocking them out. "Joy is the matriarch of emotions, and she won't come into your house if her children are not welcome"
two weeks after my @jhanatech retreat in Nosara – I sat down to reflect on my experience and how it's stayed with me since. my one-sentence summary: it hurts me more, but it bothers me less full post here:
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