I am getting back into meditating

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Ngl my life was better when i was meditating

 

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Good luck brudda

 

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some meditation practitioners also report that it is possible to undergo a total absence of consciousness during meditation, lasting up to 7 days, and that these "cessations" can be consistently induced. One form of extended cessation (i.e., nirodha sam apatti) is thought to be different from sleep because practitioners are said to be completely impervious to external stimulation. That is, they cannot be 'woken up' from the cessation state as one might be from a dream. Cessations are also associated with the absence of any time experience or tiredness, and are said to involve a stiff rather than a relaxed body. Emergence from meditation-induced cessations is said to have profound effects on subsequent cognition and experience (e.g., resulting in a sudden sense of clarity, openness, and possibly insights)

“In the case of the one who is dead, who has completed his time, his bodily, verbal and
mental fabrications have ceased and subsided, his vitality is exhausted, his heat
subsided, and his faculties are scattered. But in the case of a monk who has
attained the cessation of perception and feeling, his bodily, verbal and mental
fabrications have ceased and subsided, his vitality is not exhausted, his heat
has not subsided, and his faculties are exceptionally clear.”

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370230097_Cessations_of_consciousness_in_meditation_Advancing_a_scientific_understanding_of_nirodha_samapatti