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So, the poster formly known as Freektemple posted this in a thread asking for advice and so forth:
I want ...to be told what to do and expect
Now, my pat answer to that sort of query for years has been that everyone is different, we all have different past experience/physiologies/"degrees of readiness" and so forth, so one cannot be told what to expect. Everyone's experience is different and unique and part of the learning curve is interpreting *whatever happens* (if indeed anything in a way that's useful to you. While I'd still agree with the second part of that statement, I don't know to what degree I'd go along with the first. .
I suppose what I'm asking is, is there a commonality of experience between practices that transcends individual practiconers? Depends on the practice, I suppose. I think everyone who's not done it before - and many who have - would get something out of basic meditation, but as I was writing that I recalled a guy in whom a very simple meditation practice has triggered some psychotic episodes. Maybe we are all different, after all.
Hmm. Don't know. Bit of an out loud muse this. What do people think? is there a commonality between experience that is striking? Or not?
BTW Freektemple, even I did know fer sure what you would have happen, I still don't think I'd tell you - why should I spoil your fun  |
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