An opinionated view on meditation | I Need Meditation

The big lie of most meditation practices

If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll secretly wonder why meditation has to be so hard, slow, and boring. You’ll assume, “well, that’s just the way it has to be” . As it turns out, most meditation pa...

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Jan 31, 2026

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Energy

Meditating gives you more energy 🧘⚡, but not in the way you think it will. It doesn’t give you the same kind of rough, chemical energy ⚗️⚡ you get from eating a bowl of cherries 🍒. Or sipping bitter b...

Jan 29, 2026

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The 3 core wounds and their healing

What is the difference between this form of meditation and fill-in-the-blank ? Oh my gosh, so many things! For now, let’s just focus on one aspect, the healing aspect . This meditation format is unusu...

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Nov 13, 2025

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Get off anti-depressants

...and you weren’t born with a neurological deficiency. When you were little, you bit on thoughts because you were curious. It took years of hard work to develop the thinking habit . Biting on thought...

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Aug 28, 2025

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You are better than AI

AI is amazing, but it’s just statistics . It’s just the fanciest statistics you’ve ever seen. Did you know that AI is literally a file sitting on a hard drive filled with numbers?—albeit a staggering ...

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Aug 28, 2025

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Are all spiritual practices the same?

People seem to think that all spiritual practices are the same. Or that they all take you to the same place. “It doesn’t matter what I choose,” they think. “These are spiritual people, I’ll be safe wi...

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Aug 28, 2025

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The soul

I’m referring to “the soul” in the sense of the poets and mystics—the eternal part of yourself. Simple. Not in the sense of the religionists—such as stories and superstitions. As a former monk I can h...

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Aug 23, 2025

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Summer is the perfect time to reconnect with your soul and slow your mind down

Do you love the summer but are afraid of how fast the time is flying by? Wondering where the time has gone... And bracing yourself for a too-soon September... It doesn’t have to be that way. There’s n...

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Aug 5, 2025

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What happens to religion when everyone gets a spiritual experience?

Religion has failed in such a fundamental way, that no one expects religion to provide a direct, inner, spiritual experience. Religion has taken the mantle as “belief provider”, not “experience provid...

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Jul 5, 2025

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Should I just use a meditation app?

Here’s 5 things most people don’t know... Apps have an extractive revenue model. The unspoken premise is that you’re on a treadmill subscription, in the same way a for-profit drug company wants you st...

Feb 28, 2024

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Should I just use AI for meditation?

Here’s 5 things most people don’t know... AI is just statistics . It’s a ginormous file stuffed full of numbers sitting on a hard drive somewhere. That’s it. You’d be listening to numbers numbering. A...

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Feb 28, 2024

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Thoughts on thoughts

This is in response to a video titled “ I don’t meditate ” (which was meant to be a video response). How people view meditation is a topic that I’m really fascinated by. I’ve watched people learn to m...

Oct 23, 2022

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