The range of the degree to which people can tolerate pain is quite wide. I've seen some people with weirdly high abilities to tolerate what I'm 100% certain was terrible pain. And my tolerance for pain was already pretty high, which is actually one of the reasons I was a pretty successful meditator. It just didn't knock me off my game a lot like some people really does.
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Why should we meditate? What are the typical developmental stages as one progresses along the contemplative path? What does it mean to "hold an ontology loosely"? Are some meditative techniques inappropriate for some practitioners? Are there risks associated with meditation?
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