Noticing the importance of energy and attentiveness in meditation vs sloth. I watch how my motivation to practice enhances my energy, my desire to look at my mind, and vice versa. When I remember that sitting through hindrances has always yielded clarity and fruit, I am motivated to practice. When I remember the times I have found release in being mindful of pleasant and unpleasant contact, the release that is inherent in all of our contact, I am motivated to practice.
I notice some of the links between the hindrances. Sloth (not mere tiredness but the lack of motivation to practice) may be ego-boredom resulting from the fading of desire and aversion. It masquerades as tiredness to effect the continuation of self, the closing of the eye.
Can I see this? Am I willing to set my purpose in life against the shadow of time?
I notice some of the links between the hindrances. Sloth (not mere tiredness but the lack of motivation to practice) may be ego-boredom resulting from the fading of desire and aversion. It masquerades as tiredness to effect the continuation of self, the closing of the eye.
Can I see this? Am I willing to set my purpose in life against the shadow of time?
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