Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook by Elisha Goldstein

Author:Elisha Goldstein [Stahl, Bob, and Goldstein, Elisha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: meditation
ISBN: 9781608821475
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Published: 2010-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Sitting Meditation Journal

Take some time to write about whatever came up for you mentally, emotionally, and physically when doing this practice for the first time.

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Bob’s Story: Rooster Meditation

In the early 1980s I lived at a Buddhist monastery, along with many other monks and a group of six roosters. Having grown up in the city, I assumed that roosters just crow in the morning, at sunrise. It took no time whatsoever to discover that these roosters crowed almost twenty-four hours a day.

On Saturdays we held daylong meditations. The meditation hall was on the first floor, and the roosters often hopped up onto the windowsill to cock-a-doodle-doo all day long. In no time at all, this put me in a state of profound anger. As I wondered why they wouldn’t stop cock-a-doodle-do-ing, I dreamt up many ways to kill a rooster. I could sit on it, shoot it, poison it, burn it, cut it, drown it—my creativity was boundless.

Finally, one day I complained to my teacher, Hlaing Tet Sayadaw, who scolded me and said, “You know nothing about meditation. These roosters are here to teach you. Hearing, hearing, hearing, anger, anger, anger. Go sit back down and practice!”

As time went on, the crowing of the roosters gradually transformed into sound waves—nothing more than audio signals rising and falling. Of course this practice isn’t easy, and to this day I can still be provoked at times by the roosters that show up in life—real and metaphorical. But as one’s practice slowly grows, patience and understanding will supersede annoyances.

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