<aside> ☝ This refers to the 3 stages on the front page of the Meditation blog feature category.

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Stage 1 - Getting Interested

Stage 2 - Interested; Now What?

Stage 3 - Getting Serious


The 3 stages are just arbitrary groupings I made up to bundle things like resource recommendations, blog articles, and whatnot. The distinctions between them are really along the axis of "how interested/receptive are you", because people will run the spectrum there.

So there's not much more to say here: they really have no inherent meaning.

So, why?

Context matters, and there's a lot of stuff.

Naturally, there's resources better suited to 'beginners' and those who haven't consumed a lot of this content. The deeper you go, the more necessary jargon there is, not to mention the complexity of the branching cultural and historical trappings one can naturally expect from the thousands of years of propagation since the times of early Buddhism (~500 BCE, the time of The Buddha).

This is all inherently fascinating, no matter how you slice it. But, it is certainly fair to consider that it would be overwhelming to just enthusiastically heap 'everything' upon newcomers. Making things more accessible for people at a high-level is a better approach, with layers added thereafter and emergent complexity for those who wish to dig deeper. That's the idea, anyway.


Footnote:

<aside> 🙏 Please don't turn this into a thing Don't you dare start going around telling people that "you're in stage 2/3 in the SC '3 Stage' model" no no no no no. I will find you, and I will... politely tell you to stop doing that.

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This isn't some reverse psychology thing; there's already too much noise and jargon in this area already!