theory: therapy has marginal return to burning karma (phenomenological contractions) bc you’re doing things manually one at a time focused on stories and content, and at some point you’ve burned through the easy wins
meditation has exponential return to burning karma, bc over time you’re using awareness and equanimity (universal solvent for contractions) to dissolve it. When the arrow of attention goes away as you become more centerless this process is parallelized across all areas of your body and across all of time as the difference between meditation and life dissolves. And as the contractions get dissolved, awareness in some sense gets stronger and more decentrali
I like@RomeoStevens76’s threefold training model for this (http://neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2021/03/threefold-training.html) ngondro afaik (not tantra expert) like shine a concentration practice in this diagram. I get why they do that, sharpen knives before using cooking is good for both efficacy and safety
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