/lit/ - Literature

>>12438720
i follow mostly TMI with some variations i use, i'm stuck somewhere between stages 4-5 so not very far, i've read MCTB but it isn't so much a system as it's a map of different stages and features of the mind you can encounter while practicing different systems, the author seems very autistic about fitting everything to those stages, i am not far enough to judge his descriptions so i'm open to them but open to them being inaccurate too

i think the author of MCTB follow mostly dry vipassana techniques detailed on Mahasi Sayadaw's The Progress of Insight which i haven't read yet, i am for the moment more inclined to balancing samatha with vipassana as detailed on TMI, something about autistically trying to see suffering+impermanence+noself in everything seems too much like setting a pre-framework instead of letting your practice see what it's there and judge once you've seen. but i haven't read enough and this may be my uneducated perception of dry-vipassana practices