Can you trust what you see in meditation?
5 min readApr 19, 2024
I recently posted an article about the significance of entering into altered states of consciousness for a Buddhist practitioner. I commented that sitting meditation tends to be heavily emphasized by Chinese Ch’an practitioners. Although Buddha himself had practiced Samatha meditation (which is pre-Buddhist) under various masters, he found it unsatisfactory. Samatha means calmness or tranquility. Eventually, Buddha…