Alesh Vyhnal
I don't know if it's exactly "attainment", but today, after 43 months of meditation (initially 3x40 minutes a day, then 2x90 minutes a day and for the last year 1x120 minutes a day, mostly samatha, sometimes Mahasi noting and sometimes koan "Who am I?") I had olfactory hallucinations. Something between the smell of rust (Fe2O3) and spring soil. Interesting.

43 months to get another sense experience? Something tells me you are doing it wrong.

Adi Vader
Generally, in any forum, its advisable to encourage people. Meditation attainments take time. Enthusiasm is difficult to maintain. And a 'good job' or 'congrats' is always appreciated.

If you wish to discourage, and have genuine reasons for doing so, it might be a good idea to detail out your observations.

1. What precisely is wrong
2. How can it be corrected
3. A detailed correction plan

​​​​​​​OP might actually enjoy such a post.#

OMG what is wrong with you people? You think every problem can be solved with nicities! Have you not heard of the stick that monks use to keep their students awake?
The TRUTH is PAINFULL to EVERYONE, at first.
The ONLY time we learn things is when they are accompanied by pain or suffering. That is the ENTIRE reason we are inhabiting as human beings.

The most important lessons we learn are learnt from suffering, NOT platitudes.

Adi Vader
1. Who's 'you people'?
2. Are you a teaching monk?
3. Are you speaking to a student?
4. Have you appointed yourself as people's teacher?
5. Have people here accepted you as everybody's teacher
6. If so has everyone consented to be harshly spoken to?
7. In order to teach those whom you view as your students, are you going to issue measured doses of suffering?
8. Are you the judge of what other people's ENTIRE reason for existing is?

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This has to be the most elegant use of the socratic method I have ever seen.

Adi Vader
1. Who's 'you people'?
2. Are you a teaching monk?
3. Are you speaking to a student?
4. Have you appointed yourself as people's teacher?
5. Have people here accepted you as everybody's teacher
6. If so has everyone consented to be harshly spoken to?
7. In order to teach those whom you view as your students, are you going to issue measured doses of suffering?
8. Are you the judge of what other people's ENTIRE reason for existing is?

​​​​​​​I am not writing this to start a fight. I am trying to understand you.

Edit: I dont think anything good is going to come out of me writing to you.

​​​​​​​Alright Thor. Carry on