Why the sequence matters more than the technique
Most people collect techniques. The classical sources are far more interested in what order you do them in.
[PLACEHOLDER] Ask most people what they practise and you get a list of techniques. Ask what order they do them in, and why that order, and the answer thins out.
[PLACEHOLDER] The classical manuals are the other way round. They are relatively brief on any individual technique and unusually insistent about sequence. What precedes what, what must be established before something else is attempted, and what happens when that ordering is ignored.
[PLACEHOLDER] There is a practical reason. A concentration practice attempted before the breath is steady does not fail dramatically. It simply does not work, and the practitioner concludes the technique was the problem.
[PLACEHOLDER] This is why everything here runs as a curriculum rather than a menu. Continue drafting.