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My Week at the Buzzy Meditation Retreat That Promises Bliss on Demand
The question is, do you want to do to your own psyche what humans have done to ecosystem after ecosystem? With the best of intentions, just trying to take care of yourself, fit in with your needs and your environment, you can practice jhanas and set boundaries and get massages — and at some point, you look around to find your inner wilds paved, you... See more
River Kenna • Rewilding the Psyche
I wasn’t sure what sort of insights I wanted to explore. I had attended the Jhourney retreat primarily to satisfy my intellectual curiosity about a strange phenomenon. Still, I couldn’t help but notice ... things. Why, for example, had I been so quick to pick up the jhanas? I had thought of myself as a sort of lovably grumpy person, not particularl... See more
Manufacturing Bliss
Using these techniques often made me feel as if I were on the verge of ushering in a golden era of calm, undistracted productivity and meaningful activity. But it never arrived. Instead, I just got more stressed and unhappy.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The basic technique was finding a “meditation object” — something or someone that sparked a pleasant sensation — then trying to intensify and heighten that sensation. But we were told to experiment, because certain techniques were likely to work better for some than others. This, too, was a marked departure from the typical dogma of meditation retr... See more
Manufacturing Bliss
But in that moment where I realized there was literally nothing I could do, everything changed. All of a sudden, my view of everything shifted. Almost like flipping over a card or a coin, everything that I ever thought or felt, everything that I could remember, everything in that moment literally disappeared. I was finally alone. And in this alonen
... See moreAdyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be,... See more