The Importance of Feedback in Sitting Meditation

Many people, they are talk, they have done a lot of seated meditation and practice presence and awareness. But if you take them and you try to put any kind of feedback on their focus, you'll be surprised at the result. For example, take a stick and balance it on your fingers. Everybody can do that pretty much for 30 seconds. No problem. Take an advanced meditator, have him do it for one hour without dropping the stick. You'll discover that his focus cannot be applied well into this new scenario. And he will lose it after a few minutes. One moment of lack of awareness and boom, it falls. That's for me touching the weakness of the container

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