Mattias Wilhelm Stenberg:
My practice has mainly been focused on the suffering aspect, so my fruitions have usually been emotionally/physically intense. The big (and dramatic) fruition happened more than a month before this and was followed by several similar ones that were very obvious and not in any way similar to this event (or non-event).
Hi Mattias

What are the 'fruitions' that you are referring to?
In MCTB lingo, as best I understand it, fruition is connected to cessation, i.e., everything (the whole of experience) completely blinking off and then coming back on-line. What are the fruitions you are describing and why do you call them fruitions?
There are definitely many different versions of 'fruition' in different Buddhist traditions. Generally Buddhism uses a threefold description of Base, Path and Fruition. The Base of any given style of meditation is the basic orientation, the basic reality that one is orienting to. The Path includes methods that set up conditions for spontaneous releases/realizations. Those
spontaneous realizations which leave lasting changes in the way mind functions are generally referred to as Fruitions.
In the Theravada system that MCTB is based on, the method is Vipassana as in seeing clearly the true nature of sensations in real time (i.e., they are empty and impermanent and clinging to them as if they weren't is suffering). The fruition is the cessation of all conditions, all sensations, which alters the way that mind functions at the roots, conferring some degree of lasting awakening, i.e., a second meaning of cessation: the (at first partial) cessation of those mental processes which obscure the true nature of sensations, thus reducing suffering.
So... what are you referring to with the term fruition?