Beyond Mindfulness in Plain English: An Introductory guide to Deeper States of Meditation by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Author:Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Meditations, Religon, General, Meditation - Buddhism, Religion, Buddhism, Rituals & Practice, Meditation
ISBN: 9780861715299
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2009-09-10T21:28:10.665000+00:00
PROBLEM 6: BOREDOM
It is difficult to imagine anything more inherently boring than sitting still for an hour with nothing to do but feel the air going in and out of your nose. You are going to run into boredom repeatedly in your meditation. Everybody does. Boredom is a mental state and should be treated as such. A few simple strategies will help you to cope.
Tactic A: Reestablish true mindfulness
If the breath seems an exceedingly dull thing to observe over and over, you may rest assured of one thing: you have ceased to observe the process with true mindfulness. Mindfulness is never boring. Look again. Don’t assume that you know what breath is. Don’t take it for granted that you have already seen everything there is to see. If you do, you are conceptualizing the process. You are not observing its living reality. When you are clearly mindful of the breath or of anything else, it is never boring. Mindfulness looks at everything with the eyes of a child, with a sense of wonder. Mindfulness sees every moment as if it were the first and the only moment in the universe. So look again.
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