Wat Ram Poeng

October 7th, 2003 at 12:00am

Day 21. It has taken me nearly 3 weeks to date, but today I finally feel like I have a true understanding of what it means to free your mind of suffering (the purpose of Insight meditation). I don’t know hoe to explain it that well, but I am sure that it takes longer than 10 days to experience enough emotions and to be able to acknowledge them over and over again and to see and feel what happens with the mind. There are so many different types of thoughts and emotions like fear, anxiety, boredom, doubt, envy, jealousy, greed, regret, love, hate, anger, impatience, pressure, guilt, planning, and remembering just to name a few, and ALL of them lead to suffering. This seems very obvious I know, but you gain a completely different awareness and understanding of your mind when you practice meditation for 12-14 hours/day and you experience for yourself a certain level of’nothingness’ or peace for lack of a better word, and you are able to free your mind of this suffereing. Wow, what a breakthrough. It is such a simple idea to just observe your feelings and not attach to them, but much more difficult to actually achieve in practice. Don’t worry folks, I’m not about to run off, shave my head, and become a nun now or anything!

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