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Meditation matters
A weekly journal and podcast published each Thursday, exploring the many worlds of meditation
177: Dry Spells (3) – Spiritual Progress and the Illusory Straight Line
An underlying issue with dry spells in meditation is our feeling – our expectation – that the trajectory of spiritual progress ought to proceed upward at a steady, consistent rate, more or less in a straight line.
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176: Dry Spells (2) – Abandon Expectation
Dry spells arise when our experience does not match our expectation.
We can only do what is within our control. Frustratingly, we cannot control our experience, hence our dry spell … but we can control our expectation.
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175: Dry Spells (1) – How to Respond
Every meditator endures dry spells.
Like writer’s block or an athlete’s form slump, these spells arrive without warning, with no apparent cause and no clear remedy. Like the weather, a dry spell might last a day, a week or months on end.
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