Is it necessary to use a whole variety of meditation techniques?
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I found experimentation helpful before I realised that some meditations require some form of mental application or you could refer to it as volitional noise. This, as I learned, became averse to me and so my practice is meditating while 'not doing'. This means I am just simply an observer of bodily phenomenon. It goes much deeper than this as one can observe with a kind of gentle organic intuitive processing which is helpful when seeing the threes marks of existence within the skandhas. Many people have given this meditation different names but I don't concern myself with that. Find your own comfortable technique but use Buddha's guidance as a framework. Here's a beautiful quote from the Diamond Sutra that illustrates this message.
Awakening does not come from a set method of teachings but an internally intuitive process which is spontaneous and part of one's own inner nature.
Here's an audio version of the Diamond Sutra...
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Well, the Buddha basically only practiced samatha. I think it worked pretty well for him. But like anything else, the best views are found on the highest peaks. You only reach them with time and dedicated, directed effort.
Any genuine meditation path can lead you to enlightenment. Just as easily, superficial dabbling in many traditions is going to drive you far from it.
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