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Why meditation sometimes feels transcendent and sometimes feels empty

I've been meditating for three years and sometimes I feel connected to something vast and other times it just feels like sitting quietly with my thoughts and I don't know which one is real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind seeks to categorize peak experiences as either meaningful or meaningless, missing the possibility that uncertainty itself might be the teaching.

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