My purpose is a little different-- there is a progression, loosely and specifically, in the buddhist meditation tradition.
Meditation(s) are not disconnected, unrelated practices. There is a progression and chronology to the different meditation practices that is not apparent unless one looks.
And so, in the buddhist tradition, when we reach a peak, or attain a meditation goal, it provides the fertile ground for the next, successive practice. There is a definite order that is designed to bring about specific knowledge, and change.
Imagine the mind to be a castle of locked doors. We must start at the front door, unlock it, and then, only, may we proceed to unlock the foyer door, and only after that, may we open the drawing room door.
In this way, meditation practice is designed to bring our understanding through specific stages, to prepare for the next stage.
The Vinaya Code, the set of rules that a monk decides to adhere to, are specific mindfulness practices designed to
couple the successive learning experiences of meditative practice with the application of those learned experiences to every day life-- to apply them to our understanding of being and interacting in the world, while practicing equanimity with earnestness, mindfulness and skillfulness.
Eventually, the two seemingly disparate understandings of the world reveal themselves to be one.
Any separation of practices or disconnected practice of them, such as for purely performance enhancing purposes, is to lose the vital interconnectedness of the practice and life.
That is not to say that specific, narrow practices do not enrich us, and create more fertile ground for further practice and understanding, but, we do miss the much richer and deeper practice that is a continuing process to a goal.
Alas, this has become a small diatribe.
I apologize.
Quite obviously, any meditative practice at all is enriching and worthwhile.
Again, thank you, @Mindf'Elle'ness , for such a great thread.
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