Working up to one or two hours per day, every day, is a good goal.
Therein lies the rub. That’s a pretty significant investment of time for a busy person, given the uncertain benefits. And I have to do this for a year or two before I know whether it’s doing me any good?
This may vary from person to person, but I found I didn’t need a rigourous schedule to make enough progress to determine that meditation was beneficial for my mental well-being. Doing about half an hour once every few days (when I remembered to) was enough, within a few months, to grant me relaxation and greater clarity of mind. Those aren’t really the point, but it’s reason enough to push forward and see what else there is to see.
I suggested 3 months to a year for achieving partial enlightenment.
If you consider seeing progress according to the four stage model that I gave (or another more detailed model) to be something that reduces the uncertainty of the value of the pursuit, then obviously you will be in a position to better evaluate whether it is a worthwhile pursuit much sooner than that.
Therein lies the rub. That’s a pretty significant investment of time for a busy person, given the uncertain benefits. And I have to do this for a year or two before I know whether it’s doing me any good?
This may vary from person to person, but I found I didn’t need a rigourous schedule to make enough progress to determine that meditation was beneficial for my mental well-being. Doing about half an hour once every few days (when I remembered to) was enough, within a few months, to grant me relaxation and greater clarity of mind. Those aren’t really the point, but it’s reason enough to push forward and see what else there is to see.
I suggested 3 months to a year for achieving partial enlightenment.
If you consider seeing progress according to the four stage model that I gave (or another more detailed model) to be something that reduces the uncertainty of the value of the pursuit, then obviously you will be in a position to better evaluate whether it is a worthwhile pursuit much sooner than that.