So I am firmly suggesting that Vikalpa is kind of the thing in the way. It is the thing we need to deconstruct. Vikalpa is like: a wall being continually built, by you, by your mind, by your thinking and discursive activities......kind of all the time; it is the notion that you are something of [...]

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Insight meditation is really a critical process. A process of negation – one is trying to actively undermine something; to tear down a solid wall; to uncover something which has been concealed. To find something which is normally hidden. So in most traditions, it is a deconstructive process, not a process of building something up. [...]

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In shamatha meditation, nothing is being added, and nothing is really being taken away. It’s just a point where stillness and stability may be discovered as part of the functioning of your mind; alongside all the other crazy, interesting, dirty, strange stuff. It is at precisely such a point where the Dharmic traditions offer a [...]

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