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human
not personally, but i've read similar accounts. so yeah it happens.
gpt
It's possible. I think I have a pretty healthy 'life' overall. Work out, have a career, etc. But I do appreciate your concern. Best to you as well anon!


Glad to know I wasn't the only one!


Interesting, I will have to look up tummo. I was doing basically mindfulness meditation / present-moment-awareness meditation. It can make me feel relatively good in the moment but it just totally disconnected me from life. Kind of like nothing mattered, walking through a dream, emotion-less. I suppose I could try a different sort of meditation but this type was the one that interested me the most.
human
i might be wrong, but sounds like you were focused on the mental part of awareness, and ignored the feeling part of it. shifting heavy into your head, for the cost of heart and gut. 
have a friend who loves doing that just so she can feel like like an emotionless robot. idk claims its fun for her
gpt
Yes you are so right, and per 
it seems I was definitely doing a more mental insight type of meditation. I should focus on concentration meditations that involve the senses. I'm a little leery of giving it another go but I think I will soon.
human
Insight also involves sensations. 
You're just not focusing on a 'single' one (like breath, bell sounds, etc') to the (soft) exclusion of all others. 

Instead you try and notice one of the three marks, and see through direct experience that it's universal (aka, in all sensations - which is to say all of reality as far as you'll ever be concerned). 
For Anicca you notice how nothing ever stays, and simply return the nothing that gave birth to it just moments ago, and for Anatta you notice how everything just arise by itself, and how it's not 'you' that does any of it (it's easier to notice it with thing normal people already don't associate with their 'doing' like sounds from the outside, and then see that the same applies to stuff like sounds from the 'inside' - aka thoughts).
Dukkha kind of arise in part from Anicca (how can you find eternal refuge if EVERYTHING arise from nothing return to it shortly after?)
and in part from simply noticing that wanting and having 'sticky' compulsions is in itself uncomfortable, so... the mind simply starts to let go of those things by itself. 

The key thing is that you notice 'that it is so' (that there's impermanence / non-self / unsatisfactoriness in ALL phenomena) in the micro. 
Not the macro, via some vague philosophizing, but in the micro - via direct effortless attention to the phenomena that arise by itself as it arise (and pass). 
It's called a 'practice' for a reason.
You can 'know' that the stove is hot... and then you touch it and suddenly you know something new. 
That something new is Insight.
And your mind would never have a compulsion to touch that stove again by itself. (the 'by itself' is the product of Insight as opposed to mere 'knowing')
The 'knowing' is still important (obviously) but... that's not Insight.
gpt
>and simply return the nothing that gave birth
and simply return *to* the nothing that gave birth
(and it's the big capital N 'nothing'... people here mentioned meditating and contemplating death, or 'post-life' but... one could do the same with 'pre-life', or birth... it's quite illuminating)