Wow, great to see a review of the Finder’s course here! I have a bunch of thoughts, but let me first say that most mainstream meditation teachers are not happy with Jeffrey Martin. Taking a bunch of thousand-year-old techniques offered for free elsewhere and making people pay 250$ (this is much better than a few years ago, when it was 4000$) for them goes against basically all the norms of Buddhist and meditative culture.
I see no good reason why Buddhists idea about how one should think about money should matter a lot to the average person who reads this post.
To me, this sounds like: “A lot of people reject Jeffrey Martin because of bad reasons instead of looking at the merits of what he teaches.”
*shrug* I wrote that to give people a sense of how he relates to the wider meditation community. If he was really teaching something different and his 65% success rate was true, then 250$ would be an absolute bargain, hell, even 100 000$ would be a bargain for that.
Yes, you describes that the relationship is that he primarily gets a bad reputation for reasons that don’t matter to the rationalist community and not for the merits of the techniques he teaches.
I see no good reason why Buddhists idea about how one should think about money should matter a lot to the average person who reads this post.
To me, this sounds like: “A lot of people reject Jeffrey Martin because of bad reasons instead of looking at the merits of what he teaches.”
*shrug* I wrote that to give people a sense of how he relates to the wider meditation community. If he was really teaching something different and his 65% success rate was true, then 250$ would be an absolute bargain, hell, even 100 000$ would be a bargain for that.
Yes, you describes that the relationship is that he primarily gets a bad reputation for reasons that don’t matter to the rationalist community and not for the merits of the techniques he teaches.