Always great to see contemplative practice being represented here! If people want a quantitative estimate of the value of doing these practices, I’ve heard Shinzen Young say a few times that he’d rather have one day of his experience than 20 years of rich/famous/powerful life. Culadasa has agreed with this estimate in public, and Daniel Ingram agreed right away to this to me in private video chat. This places the lower bound of meditation-induced increase in life satisfaction somewhere around 4 orders of magnitude.
Always great to see contemplative practice being represented here! If people want a quantitative estimate of the value of doing these practices, I’ve heard Shinzen Young say a few times that he’d rather have one day of his experience than 20 years of rich/famous/powerful life. Culadasa has agreed with this estimate in public, and Daniel Ingram agreed right away to this to me in private video chat. This places the lower bound of meditation-induced increase in life satisfaction somewhere around 4 orders of magnitude.