More meditation ramblings

October 6th, 2003 at 12:00am

Day 20. Oh yeah, only 6 more days to go…6 more days until a bed with a mattress, all the food I want, and any form of entertainment – music, movies, internet, newspapers, shopping – I can’t wait! Ok, I know, forget that and practice now otherwise I may never know the benefits of this. Phra Ajun Suphan say I should be practicing 12-14 hours/day and sleeping only 4 hours to prepare myself for the Determination (don’t want to think about that yet, will explain later). I can’t seem to manage on 4 hours as I seem to need 6 every night. I don’t really understand why you have to suffer to free yourself from suffering, but perhaps that is a secret only for the Enlightened ones. If I don’t practice hard now, I’ll never take the ‘mindfulness’ into the real world. So all of those ‘hindering’ pleasures will just have to wait. For now my only ‘pleasures’ are having enough food to nourish my body and having a cold orange slushy in the afternoons.

Meditation morning noon and night

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