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In sum: you can best achieve success at meditation by not pursuing success, and achieving this success may mean caring less about success, at least as success is conventionally defined. If this sounds unbearably paradoxical, maybe you should quit reading here, because this won’t be the last time we find paradox in Buddhist practice or Buddhist teachings. Then again, there’s paradoxical stuff in modern physics (an electron is both a particle and a wave), and modern physics works fine. So you might as well keep reading.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
Practice variability changes the usefulness of informational variables. When we are practicing, our goal is, of course, the transfer of training. We want improvements in the practice task (called the transfer task in research terms) to improve our ability to perform tasks in a game or competition (called the criterion task).
The Advanced Ecological Approach to Skill Development
Rob Gray
By embarking on adventures with no greater intention than having fun, tricksters eventually discover values, order, and morality anew.
Tricking Power Into Performing Acts of Love
Shepherd Siegel
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