i made a startling admission to my friend Emma today - i'm a real control freak...but wait, there's more - i'm also very impatient...i know, potent combination
i've just finished reading "eat, pray, love" and it's inspired me to make time for some more seated meditation...and, over the last couple of days i've given it a go...it feels great, sit down for 10 minutes, bringining awareness to the breath...those inevitable thoughts conspire to occupy the mind, but bring the attention back gently...10 minutes later you feel like you've had a mental spring clean...you can clearly see some of your old thought patterns come along, with the attendent emotions attached to alter your mood and outlook...but having this time seems to give these things space to dissipate...without the space the pressure of living seems to strengthen them in your mind and/ or change them to suit the latest set of circumstances...so, i guess, dissipating them kind of helps lessen the samskaras or embedded thought patterns which are ingrained in our psyche, somewhere, closely linked, it would seem, to our ego, or material sense of self...
to use a different metaphor, it's kind of like giving the house a good clean out every day...i might even find time this weekend for a good ol fashioned spring clear....
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