| | Hi Caocao, Yeah, this site is pretty "hands-on". So while we don't bemoan the existence of the hindrances much, we do discuss meditation in detail, we share encouragement and advice for real-life, practical situations where we get stuck, how we got un-stuck in those places, and so on. The hindrances are there, and this is how we deal with them.
In my opinion, that's exactly what the Buddha taught: not to obsess about the hindrances, but to grind away at them with mindfulness, and it's that daily grinding away at them, the practicing (not just in meditation: there are three fields of practice in the noble eightfold path) where the members of this site are such a rare example of an incredibly functional online group of spiritual friends, in exactly the sense I think the Buddha was going on about in his famous words to Ananda ("don't say *half* the holy life, Ananda - company of good friends is the *whole* of the holy life!")
It's true there are not many threads discussing metta practice, for example. So start one! If you have any advice you wish to share, write it up on a page (this is a wiki, actually). If you wish to discuss a practical point of the development of metta, start a thread. The cool thing about this site is that people actually try new techniques and practices, and come back to report progress and ask questions, and we all profit from that.
As to "unbalanced" practice - yeah, that happens. I'm guilty of this myself. But I'm sure you yourself have noticed that the process tends to drive one in the necessary direction, balancing itself out, given that the practitioner has trust in the process. And again, the help of good friends is invaluable, and available here.
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