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Ron said: "...having a hard time sitting over 30 minutes at a time."
Funny... who would have thought that sitting is hard?
On our first course, I glanced over at my husband at the end of an hour and he had so many cushions under him, that they looked like a chair. Now he uses only a small blanket folded over... just enough to slightly raise his lower spine. He swore at the end of that first course that he would never be able to be comfortable sitting... and now he is a marathon sitter.
...patiently and persistently, you are bound to succeed... I love those words.
Love this people! Getting trained to accept reality for what it is, without wavering to and fro. To live in each moment, and try to enjoy it for what it is....What a concept!
Best,
Mike
That is a Onederful answer, Jeanne! Thank you - especially "knowing the team is winning", however I have not gotten that far yet. In fact, I miss my charge from pranayama, chanting mantras, etc. Then after that beautiful, rhythmic music would put me into a yoga-type stretching dance.Even though, the instructions were to go into the corpse pose.Ron said: "I am trying to be equanimous, instead of getting too "rah rah" about this. I asked Anand the teacher about "why not getting really excited about things like your team winning?". Expecting a lecture about how "pleasure sankaras were just as hurtful as painful ones in the long run", instead he simply looked at me with his clear eyes and beautiful smile and said: "Why can't we be joyous every moment?"
Vipassana... As it is... and for me, sometimes, it is exciting, especially after getting up from an hour sit. Sometimes I want to break into a run - skipping and jumping... feeling good to be so alive. But I don't... I simply observe my excitement... (knowing the team is winning.)
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