r/streamentry • u/diagnoal_pleats • Mar 06 '25

Practice Book Recommendation for Ambitious Online Meditators / My Younger Self

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u/jimInTheLotusHeart Mar 06 '25

I just read it, too! If you're on this subreddit, then I can't recommend it enough. I identify as being a very typical pragdharm practitioner (techy, mappy, prone to striving, probably neurodivergent, etc.) and, having been on a Tucker retreat and met the other people there, I think I can safely say that Tucker has dealt with a LOT of similar people. This book feels like it was written to counter all the typical roadblocks that myself and others in my pragdharm sangha have run into.

Specifically, it addresses what awakening and integration look like in people over time. I feel like so many of us read MCTB and TMI and got the idea that we could meditate for a month and somehow transcend all our issues. I know I struggled for a long time to understand why I still suffered after all the things that I experienced during meditation. If I had read this book back then, I would have probably saved 3 years of needless frustration.

Oh yeah, and his coverage of how to work with energy in the body is, without a doubt, the clearest and most effective advice I've seen yet. I feel pretty well educated about dealing with kriyas and such, and I picked up several new good techniques from the book.

If you liked TMI or MCTB, then SaS is right up your alley. It's also far, far more pleasant of a reading experience.

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u/IndependenceBulky696 Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

All this feels very scammy.

Your last post on Reddit was 5 years ago.

You posted about an org that Tucker Peck founded.

Are you folks coordinating your promotion of this book?

Edit:

This does appear to be coordinated promotion. Tucker's been here promoting his own book (now deleted):

https://old.reddit.com/r/streamentry/comments/1j2ojcz/new_book_on_meditation_psychology/

Please stop.

Edit 2:

The commenter sits on a non-profit board with Tucker.

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u/jimInTheLotusHeart Mar 06 '25 edited Mar 06 '25

Oh dear friend, if you had looked a little closer you might have noticed that I am the president of the organization that Tucker founded. I know the people in this thread in real life. I and Tucker literally run an all volunteer organization that gives money to needy people in order to meditate. You can check our guidestar rating. https://www.guidestar.org/profile/shared/c212e038-68f9-4dec-bb79-1c52898996b6

Here I was, so excited to see that my friend's book was mentioned on reddit that I would actually make the effort to post. Then I get your response. I'm sure you had great intentions, but it feels like you missed your mark.

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u/IndependenceBulky696 Mar 06 '25

[–]jimInTheLotusHeart [score hidden] 32 minutes ago*

Oh dear friend, if you had looked a little closer you might have noticed that I am the president of the organization that Tucker founded. I know the people in this thread in real life. I and Tucker literally run an all volunteer organization that gives money to needy people in order to meditate. You can check our guidestar rating. https://www.guidestar.org/profile/shared/c212e038-68f9-4dec-bb79-1c52898996b6

Here I was, so excited to see that my friend's book was mentioned on reddit that I would actually make the effort to post. Then I get your response. I'm sure you had great intentions, but it feels like you missed your mark.

Oh dear friend, if you had looked a little closer you might have noticed that I am the president of the organization that Tucker founded.

It's a strange way to admit that you and Tucker are trying to skirt the sub's rules and boost his book, but I'm glad to know it wasn't all in my head.

Here I was, so excited to see that my friend's book was mentioned on reddit that I would actually make the effort to post.

[ /u/jimInTheLotusHeart removed in subsequent edits...]

If you wonder why I don't post on reddit often, your comment is the reason why.

If you're only dropping by to boost your friend's book, then please don't do that.

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u/cmciccio Mar 06 '25

Your tone is a bit condescending to be honest.

That's great that you have money to give away.

I know that teachers near Tucker charge an unreasonably high hourly wage for meditation lessons. I've done 10 day full-time workshops in a Tuscan villa with world-class psychotherapists and drama therapists that cost less per day than his associate's retreats. Real Buddhist retreat centers don't have these rates.

In light of everything, you just come as rather disingenuous.

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u/beets_or_turnips Mar 06 '25

This is just one data point, and I don't know how much Tucker charges for 1:1 therapy or teaching, but his 4-day retreat in Washington this summer is $330 dollars, pretty far at the low end of cost for that kind of thing:

https://meditatewithtucker.com/washington-retreat/

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u/cmciccio Mar 06 '25

In terms of therapy, he's a high-priced therapist in San Francisco. To his credit he seems to teach based on dana. Those particular retreat rates seem more reasonable compared to other people in his orbit.

I was talking about his associates as I was responding to comments about the organization, and thus everyone who's associated with Tucker.