A reluctant meditator: "Meditation had always felt like this grindy thing where you sit and pay attention to the breath, which I found extremely tedious. Now the goal is literally to feel good. It makes me actually want to meditate."
Jhanas are sometimes described as the opposite of a panic attack: the same attention-emotion feedback loop, just running toward pleasure instead of dread.
If you want to feel that loop run the other way, that's what the retreat is for.
Bring your attention to your feet and notice if there are any subtle muscular tensions you can relax. Is there any joy associated with releasing that tension?
Our favorite style of post-retreat write-up: technical person goes in 30% sure the retreat is fake, comes out reorganizing their life around it. We never get tired of reading them
A methodology collector who’d already tried many meditation techniques: "On retreat I felt like I found some kind of secret hidden in the heart of things! These guys actually have found something that works."
The most repeated misunderstanding in our niche is treating the jhanas like a drug you take to escape your life, when most alumni describe the opposite: finally being able to be in the life they already have
Jhana is one of the few things in adult life that is fun the way play used to be fun, before everything had to be productive. People forget meditation is allowed to feel good.
We ask participants to fill out a journal entry every night, after the evening sit.
The questions guide your own investigation and brief your facilitator before your next meeting.
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