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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 21, 2024

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Has anyone ever achieved stream entry here? I was recently reading about it since I meditate intermittently and I was surprised by how strong its effects can be if done properly for a sustained period. I have terrible mental health/adhd/life issues and meditation has helped me a ton. Would be interested in learning more

Yes. It's pretty cool.

To increase your chances, meditate every single day for at least 45-60 minutes.

Great username. I'm at 15 minutes right now. I wanted to ask whether adding some walking meditation would help. I find meditation to be extremely potent, doing a sit right after posting this comment. I do one daily, 15 minutes.

Thanks. Walking meditation might help, yes. I was never much for it, but some people like it. Whatever you can do to increase presence and comprehension throughout the day is probably a good thing. Mindfulness is kind of like a leaky bucket. You fill it with your formal sessions, and off-cushion life drains water out of it through the day. So adding more water to it more often, and becoming more lucid during the rest of the day, is a good thing. You can also add a lot of little checkpoints in your life. E.g. every time you sit down, enter a car, go through a door, whatever, take 10 seconds to check in. Am I present in the body? Am I aware of what I am doing? Am I aware of what my mind thinks it is doing?

What sorta progression should I roughly aim for? I stay in my house the entire day and do not have a boss since I run my own startup, the only time I leave is for my thrice weekly gym sessions. Also, should one start a stopwatch before a sit and time it every time and keep a record of it? My practice is extremely sporadic but whenever I do sit, I feel much better. I wish to someday achieve stream entry, it is not my goal though, it will be cool if i can reach to that point but for now, I simply wish to meditate daily and for longer periods of time. I just don't have any materials to use though. Since hareesh wallis paywalled all his free courses.

I was asking about walking meditation because my dog is overweight, she is 135 lbs and needs to walk daily to lose weight. I do not want to consume podcasts, ebooks or any other form of infotainment at that time, hence my question about walking meditation. I am really happy to see others on this site being experienced practitioners.

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