The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
And for certain types of meditation, they are explicitly thought of as a problem because you're trying to focus on one thing to the exclusion of everything else, including thought. And that is what I called the concentration practice earlier. And that's a training that can be good to do. It becomes a tool that you can use for other kinds of insight.
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first that you alluded to the like a mantra based or a concentration based object of focus is the attempt to pay attention to one thing to the exclusion of everything else right you want your attention to be absorbed in that object and in many of those practices the explicit goal is to do that so well that thoughts no longer arise