Are you referring to Dark Night stuff in the Daniel Ingram sense or something else? I’d agree temporary emotional turmoil is likely past a cerain point, and might be extreme in certain cases, but I haven’t heard of decreases in cognitive capabilities (it certainly didn’t do that for me). We’ll just have to disagree about whether the meaning brought by high-level meditation is real or not, since I’m not sure how to respond to that except to quote personnal experience and the reports of other people who have done lots of meditation.
Are you referring to Dark Night stuff in the Daniel Ingram sense or something else? I’d agree temporary emotional turmoil is likely past a cerain point, and might be extreme in certain cases, but I haven’t heard of decreases in cognitive capabilities (it certainly didn’t do that for me). We’ll just have to disagree about whether the meaning brought by high-level meditation is real or not, since I’m not sure how to respond to that except to quote personnal experience and the reports of other people who have done lots of meditation.