| | Alright, assuming you are getting Fruitions, which is another question, and giving you the benefit of the doubt...
For most, you can incline to them, and they, depending on the degree of skill, quality of your current setting and circumstances, and related to what appear to be inborn talents or lack thereof, occur at some point, for some sooner, for others later, and this can vary.
I personally don't know anyone who can just go, "I'll have a Fruition", and reproducibly get one that next second, and then do this again and again second after second.
I do know plenty of people who can likely have one very likely show up in the next few minutes with general inclination in that direction during daily life, and and some who can possibly pop off a few repeats in the afterglow of that in the next few minutes.
I know lots of people who can sit down on a cushion or recline or whatever, go through the cycles in the standard sequence, and perhaps 10-60 minutes from when they started get a Fruition. I also know people who can rise through the jhanas, get to 8th, come out, and get a Fruition or all sorts of other things, and accomplish this in some number of minutes, say 5-15, something like that, as a good guideline of what is easily possible for some
I know other people who do have path but have a very hard time getting Fruitions: they tend not to do as well and progress more slowly with less sense of what they are doing, what they are capable of, what the depth of the dharma means, etc.
Plenty also cycle naturally and they just occur throughout the day some number of times, depending on current practice phase, etc.
As to whether or not it is worth cultivating them, I would say yes, as they skills and insights that get you to a Fruition are really, really good skills to have, and they do something good to the mind, cutting through the sense of continuity and agency like few things do, and mastering Fruitions is a great way to have the cycles of the next level of insight arise on their own. |