Not for Happiness: A Guide to the So-Called Preliminary Practices by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

Author:Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781611800302
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2012-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

How to Break Your Resistance to Practice

MEDITATE BETWEEN PROSTRATIONS

Boredom can be a problem, and if you allow it to take root, you could build up a strong resistance to doing any prostrations at all. One way of breaking through your resistance is to intersperse your prostrations with sitting meditation. Other good methods include focusing on physical sensations, like the pain in your knees; or think about how each prostration is bulldozing lifetime after lifetime of bad karma; or that when you do a prostration properly, you accumulate infinite merit. By practising in this way, once you have been introduced to the higher mahasandhi meditations and the nature of the mind, you will eventually experience a genuine taste of meditation.

For those who take to the mahasandhi teachings, once you get that first taste, everything will suddenly fall into place and you will find yourself irrevocably hooked. Of course, it takes time to get used to new habits, but if you are persistent and practise regularly, your world will start to open up in ways you never imagined possible. And from then on, meditation will be anything but boring.

OVERCOMING LAZINESS

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