Meditation
"What stage are you in, and where does your effort need to be focused today?" "What is a reasonable goal for today’s practice in terms of your progress up to now?" "It is important that we have goals and that we maintain an expectation of progress."
Where is that advice coming from? I would expect that most people do something that hinders meditation if you speak to them about focusing their efforts on some goal.
That's from the short-book "Progressive Stages of Mindfulness in Plain English". Specifically, it's from the section on stage1, where the goal is to develop a habit of meditating. This is the section of the book in which the author has the least original insight. The rest of the book lays out a detailed granularization of how to develop the skill of concentration.
In general, I think this advice doesn't seem to contradict advice the advice on how to deliberately practice any skill.
...I would expect that most people do something that hinders medit
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