Based on the last month of practice, I have stabilized my ability to consistently achieve moderate levels of calm abiding (shamatha) during meditation after having achieved complete, deep shamatha during retreat. Basically it just comes for free now and meditation has shifted from being a thing that was net painful to a thing that is net pleasurable to do.
Based on the last month of practice, I have stabilized my ability to consistently achieve moderate levels of calm abiding (shamatha) during meditation after having achieved complete, deep shamatha during retreat. Basically it just comes for free now and meditation has shifted from being a thing that was net painful to a thing that is net pleasurable to do.