| | Well, read about people's experiences. The practice logs here are great. When someone seriously takes up Mahasi-style noting, what happens to them? From what I could tell, people were having a lot of intense, interesting, predictable experiences from it. And after so many years of blah Zen practice, I wanted some of that.
I noticed clear shifts within days of starting, so that was enough for me. No other technique I did had similar effects.
I've switched to a slightly different but related technique now, but Mahasi-noting got me very far, very fast, and is still my baseline practice whenever I have doubts. |