Here’s an extension of what you said in terms of dullness and sharpness within attention based practices. (Partly to check that I understand)
Dullness = subcriticality and distance in cascading below the criticality line
Monkey mind = supercriticality and cascading above the criticality line (activates for whatever shows up)
If we look at the 10 stages of TMI (9-stage Elephant path), the progression goes something like distracted mind → subcriticality (stage 2-3) → practices to increase cascading of brain (4-5) → practices for the attention to calibrate around the criticality line (6-10)
Also this is why the tip to meet your meditation freshly wherever it is appearing is important because it is a criticality tuning process that is different for everyone?
(I very much like this way of thinking about this, nice!)
Here’s an extension of what you said in terms of dullness and sharpness within attention based practices. (Partly to check that I understand)
Dullness = subcriticality and distance in cascading below the criticality line
Monkey mind = supercriticality and cascading above the criticality line (activates for whatever shows up)
If we look at the 10 stages of TMI (9-stage Elephant path), the progression goes something like distracted mind → subcriticality (stage 2-3) → practices to increase cascading of brain (4-5) → practices for the attention to calibrate around the criticality line (6-10)
Also this is why the tip to meet your meditation freshly wherever it is appearing is important because it is a criticality tuning process that is different for everyone?
(I very much like this way of thinking about this, nice!)
Yep.