No, you are missing the point.
I'm banning you from commenting on my posts on the grounds that your comments are, on tone alone, argumentative rather than constructive. This has nothing to do with whether you are correct.
Thanks. Fixed.
I increasingly use tactics like this for regular human interactions. The difference is that I am okay with the person saying "no", since I am not paid on commission.
We played the Intrusive Questions Game a lot at Less Online 2024 (especially the Summer Camp between Less Online and Manifest).
Rules:
[Note to readers: This conversation has been continued elsewhere on a private channel.]
Can you tell me more about your practice?
Until then, here are a few tips. Please consider this comment to be general guidelines, as mystic insights are easy to miscommunicate.
Here are some good books to read.
In addition, how do you recognize that you've reached Access Concentration?… Would you please comment on that and how do you generally reach it?
Your description of access concentration seems correct to me.
When I was starting (first few years) I could hit it after about 30 minutes of sitting. I sit in my best approximation of full lotus position (moving my legs if I was worried about joint damage) and gently bring my attention to my breath at the base of my nostrils. When my attention drifts, I bring it back. I get my best results in Zendo and in a quiet park on a nice day, but can do whenever just to get the hours in. Meditating on the lightrail (when I was going somewhere anywhere) has been helpful too, even though it is difficult to achieve access concentration on it.
It also helps to do few days of meditation in a row. If I did 45 minutes of meditation every day, then access concentration might show up around the 30 minute mark of the third day.
If you're having trouble with access concentration, then I recommend doing your meditation with eyes open. Pick a point to look at and don't divert your eyes from there.
Finally, a warning: This meditation stuff can make sensory overload worse [for months] before it makes it better.
Here are some culty alarm bells I have encountered. ① A glass case with the leader's book on a stand inside to best display his photogenic face on the cover and a photo of that same leader on the wall that you literally look up to for inspiration like Kim Il Sung. ② Claims that the leader has special insight you can't find elsewhere. ↩︎
"Why Aren't Rationalists Winning" is quite a broad question. I prefer to ask myself "Why Aren't Rationalists Winning at Chess". I believe it has to do with insufficient education in openings and endgames.
I had a many similar experiences when I started writing on this website. Eventually, I learned to predict what people tend to get triggered by, and how to get my point across while evading those triggers.
If this is your first post, I am curious what your 100th post will look like, should you get that far.
Update: Unbanned following private conversation.