Agreed . Ugh I tried to contact him via FB . Hope he gets it back up again . <| sep |> I ' m contributing to the movement lol <| sep |> This was so painful to read . I can say this Word . For . Word . to my darling . Do you mind if I send this to him ? I hope you get to hash things out . 3 <| sep |> I wouldn ' t recommend going the Mahasi noting route given your present state of mind . If you pick up a shamatavipassana practice and get it to the point where you have stable attention , first of all you ' ll probably get a lot happier on the way to stable attention , and secondly , then you can do Mahasi noting without worrying too much about going into a dark night . Daniel ' s method is a bit too hardass . The practice isn ' t a terrible amount of work if you are already bored and killing timejust kill time by doing a meditation practice instead of being joyless and bored . I would recommend that you listen to the talks titled The Adverse Effects of Meditation talkspage 2 to see what I ' m talking about . If this makes sense to you , you can get a complete guide to shamatavipassana practice in The Mind Illuminated , which is a book by the same guy who did the dharma talk . Good luck , and keep us posted !