Time: 8:21am
What: 20 minutes seated practice
Focus: Fourth Foundation / Exercises 16 - 20 (Sati-)
Loving-kindness meditation - starting with myself and opening out to include loved ones. Still feeling that initial aversion or resistance towards this particular practice. Not quite sure of the roots of that resistance. TBD. Been listening to Joseph Goldstein's lecture on the Fourth Foundation, focusing on the hindrances. Listened to a dialog around sensual desire, and yesterday, on aversion.
Knowing when the hindrance is present, knowing when it's absent, knowing the conditions that lead to its arising, knowing the conditions that lead to its removal, knowing the conditions that prevent it from arising in the future...
Interesting how we learn about something in these teachings and then we have the opportunity to sit and explore that particular thing...
Great quote by Carl Jung:
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure however is disagreeable and therefore not popular."
1 comment:
Oh, GREAT quote from ole Jung! Kind of cuts to the chase, explaining why 'new age' thought is so popular, and why so many in our culture (where everything should be shiny and bright and only positive thinking allowed!) are drawn to it and resist the 'going against the stream' message of the Buddha.
metta,
frankjude
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