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Why too much knowledge can kill direct experience

My meditation feels mechanical now that I have read so many books about it and I cannot find my way back to the simple breathing my teacher showed me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Conceptual overlay obscures the immediacy of embodied practice and creates mental interference.

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“Where Are You with Oral tradition and knowledge without text?”

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