I’m not a big fan of The Mind Illuminated as it can strengthen various muscles related to fighting with oneself about what one should be doing. A better translation of concentration practice is tranquility/collectedness practice in which the object of focus is something more obviously valuable like peace, wholeness, kindness etc and the difficulties with engaging with the meditation object are slowly deconstructed and incorporated rather than suppressed. TWIM has a useful practice manual on this sort of thing and for a longer take on exactly how integration works I recommend Core Transformation by Connierae Andreas.
Yeah this is a fair point, in my personal experience the elephant path works to build concentration but as you say it might be worth doing another more holistic approach from the get go to skip the associated problems.
I’m not a big fan of The Mind Illuminated as it can strengthen various muscles related to fighting with oneself about what one should be doing. A better translation of concentration practice is tranquility/collectedness practice in which the object of focus is something more obviously valuable like peace, wholeness, kindness etc and the difficulties with engaging with the meditation object are slowly deconstructed and incorporated rather than suppressed. TWIM has a useful practice manual on this sort of thing and for a longer take on exactly how integration works I recommend Core Transformation by Connierae Andreas.
Yeah this is a fair point, in my personal experience the elephant path works to build concentration but as you say it might be worth doing another more holistic approach from the get go to skip the associated problems.