Launch HN: Chorus Meditation (YC W21) – Meditation for Non-Meditators
Speaking as a former meditation teacher who attained High Equanimity [1] and saw through the non-self mark of existence [2]: what you&#x27;re doing is a complete corruption of the heritage of meditation and is dangerous.<p>I&#x27;m speaking strictly from a secular point of view now, what you are teaching has nothing to do with meditation. Meditation is a practice with a clear line of progression. We have markers and waypoints for every stage of a meditator&#x27;s journey to seeing the conditioned nature of reality.<p>If you want to continue with your product, I strongly urge you to call it something else because they will be confused that what they are practicing has anything to do with a thousands of years old series of techniques that are well-defined and established and predicated on four simple truths: the observance of suffering, its origin, its extinction and the path leading to its extinction.<p>I want to add for the purpose of disclosure: I am no longer a meditation teacher and have backslid greatly in my practice. My historical comments should not be taken as the examples of right ethics which would be expected of a highly attained practitioner. Intellectually, however, I feel I must condemn a product that risks harm by association to a beautiful, clear system which can be walked by anyone to achieve a calm, kind mind.<p>If people are curious about meditation, Headspace is a solid intro to these techniques started by a former monk with decades of experience.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vipassanā-ñāṇa" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Vipassanā-ñā%...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Three_marks_of_existence#:~:text=In Buddhism, the three marks,unsatisfactoriness or suffering (duḥkha)" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Three_marks_of_existence#:~:...</a>.