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"\n\tI meant Bodhichitta from the usual doctrinal and application perspective, which means having awareness and aspiration to help all sentient beings.\n\n\n\n\t \n\n\n\n\n\n\t \n\n\n\n\tHmm. This... is not Bodhichitta. Or at least it seems that there is something very peculiar or uncommon in how you apply it.\n\n\n\n\t \n\n\n\n\tThere is the concept of four immeasurables (loving-kindness, compassion, empathic joy, and tranquility) that are taken as meditation objects. These, like Bodhichitta, have no meditative reference point of dwelling in the \"heart\" in any general sense.\n\n\n\n\t \n\n\n\n\tAs for forcibly dwelling on anything or exertion while meditating: always a bad idea. I suspect that there is something fundamentally wrong in how you have approach meditation in the past, but maybe today also. Maybe you could benefit to have a long discussion with some friendly senior practitioner or meditation teacher in order to clear up whatever misconceptions you might have about the basic practice.\n\n\n\n\t \n\n\n\n\n\n\t \n\n\n\n\tI can only give a general advice: relax, find inner peace through simplicity, and try to appreciate that you don't have to know. The process of Enlightenment is about shedding illusions in the end.\n\n"
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