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I am currently reading your thesis, The Dark Side of Dharma- Why have adverse effects of meditation been ignored in contemporary Western secular contexts, and I’ve arrived at your characterization of the relationship between concentration and insight:
Concentration (or calm abiding) practices (Pali: samatha) ...
In his description of the induction of the first state of concentration, Gautama spoke of how a person:
… steeps, drenches, fills and suffuses this body with zest and ease, born of solitude, so that there is not one particle of the body that is not pervaded by this lone-born zest and ease. (1)
In my practice, I make use of some advice Shunryu Suzuki gave, to find “zest and ease”:
If you think that you have some difficulty in some part of your body, then the rest of the body should help the part that is ...