I always appreciate your insights and opinions on this general topic.
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Yeah I think there are various potential subtle traps that can be hard to catch on your own and where it’d be good to have a competent teacher checking in on you and giving you feedback. (The teacher on our retreat happened to just be talking about two possible failure modes with meditation: going “hazy”, which you described, and going “crazy”, which is the opposite where you get super emotional and reactive.)
Unfortunately it’s hard to know who the competent and trustworthy teachers are, especially since some of them would hold up a lack of feeling as something positive.
Shinzen Young’s Five Ways to Know Yourself https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/FiveWaystoKnowYourself_ver1.6.pdf uses the words “spacey” and “racy” instead of “hazy” and “crazy”, but they might be talking about the same thing. He has specific antidotes for each. There are YouTube videos in addition to the document I just cited. He has a newer book out that is probably about the same topics, but I haven’t read it.
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Yeah I think there are various potential subtle traps that can be hard to catch on your own and where it’d be good to have a competent teacher checking in on you and giving you feedback. (The teacher on our retreat happened to just be talking about two possible failure modes with meditation: going “hazy”, which you described, and going “crazy”, which is the opposite where you get super emotional and reactive.)
Unfortunately it’s hard to know who the competent and trustworthy teachers are, especially since some of them would hold up a lack of feeling as something positive.
Shinzen Young’s Five Ways to Know Yourself https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/FiveWaystoKnowYourself_ver1.6.pdf uses the words “spacey” and “racy” instead of “hazy” and “crazy”, but they might be talking about the same thing. He has specific antidotes for each. There are YouTube videos in addition to the document I just cited. He has a newer book out that is probably about the same topics, but I haven’t read it.