tricycle dot org is a fundamentally flawed concept.

It brings together two great schools of thought –

• Buddhism
• Clickbait

and they're fundamentally incompatible.

Tricycle has things like pop-ups to get you to subscribe to a mailing list, misleading titles that misrepresent the article (like this one) (which inherently breaks the 4th precept), and appeals to shock value.

The point of the article is "don't clench too much, don't overexert effort", which is a key part of meditation, something that every meditator is familiar with. It's like the Sona Sutta thing about the guitar string with not too much tension nor too little.

Then they've used the stupid and wrong wording that not over-efforting means 'not meditating' to try and boost their pay-per-mille ad revenue.

The article is paywalled. I have some experience with dzogchen. It can be useful. That said, there's not really any escaping practice. That's kind of the whole point.

IMO, Buddhism isn't something you believe, it is something you do. The realization comes with the doing of the practice, and there aren't really any shortcuts.

I personally have gotten the most mileage out of zazen; with the exception of full-on retreats, but those aren't really casual.

Did you hear about a good thing and want it?

Or did you see a thing and are investigating it?

If it's the second then meditation is important because meditation is basically a refinement and study of seeing.

im not big on buddhism as religion so meditaion takes like half of it away.