This has some seriously good pointers.
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I meditated 15 hours a day for 6
months straight with one of the toughest Buddhist monks on the planet.
Here's what I learned:1. Finding your true
self is an act of love. Expressing it is an act of rebellion.
2. A sign of growth is having more tolerance for
discomfort. But it’s also having less tolerance for bullshit.
3. Who you are is not your
fault, but it is your responsibility.
4. Procrastination is the refusal or inability to be with
difficult emotions.
5. Desires that arise in
agitation are more aligned with your ego. Desires that arise in stillness are
more aligned with your soul.
6. The moment before letting
go is often when we grip the hardest.
7. You don’t find your ground by looking for stability. You
find your ground by relaxing into instability.
8. What you hate most in
others is usually what you hate most in yourself.
9. The biggest life hack is
to become your own best friend. Everything is easier when you do.
10. The more comfortable you become in your own
skin, the less you need to manufacture the world around you for comfort.
11. An interesting thing
happens when you start to like yourself. You no longer need all the things you
thought you needed to be happy.
12. If you
don’t train your mind to appreciate what is good, you’ll continue to look for
something better in the future, even when things are great
13. The belief that there is some future moment
more worth our presence than the one we’re in right now is why we miss our
lives.
14. There is no set of conditions that leads to
lasting happiness. Lasting happiness doesn’t come from conditions; it comes
from learning to flow with conditions.
15. Spend more time
cultivating a mind that is not attached to material things than time spent accumulating
them.
16. Sometimes we need to get out of alignment
with the rest of the world to get back into alignment with ourselves.
17. Real confidence looks like
humility. You no longer need to advertise your value because it comes from a
place that does not require the validation of others.
18. High pain tolerance is a double-edged sword.
It’s key for self-control, but can cause us to override the pain of being out
of alignment.
19. Negative thoughts will not
manifest a negative life. But unconscious negative thoughts will.
20. To feel more joy, open to
your pain.
1. Bullying yourself into enlightenment does not work.
Befriending yourself is how you transcend yourself.
22. Peak experiences are fun,
but you always have to come back. Learning to appreciate ordinary moments is
the key to a fulfilling life.
23. Meditation is not about feeling good. It’s
about feeling what you’re feeling with good awareness. Plot twist: Eventually
that makes you feel good.
24. If you are able to watch
your mind think, it means who you are is bigger than your thoughts.
25. Practicing stillness is not about
privileging stillness over movement. It’s about the CAPACITY to be still amidst
your impulses. It’s about choice.
26. The issue is not that we
get distracted. It's that we're so distracted by distractions we don't even
know we're distracted.
27. There are 3 layers to a moment: Your
experience, your awareness of the experience, and your story about the
experience. Be mindful of the story.
28. Life is always happening
in just one moment. That's all you're responsible for.
29. Your mind doesn’t wander. It moves toward
what it finds most interesting. If you want to focus better, become more curious
about what's in front of you.
30. Life continues whether
you’re paying attention to it or not. I think that is why the passage of time
is scary.
31. You cannot practice non-attachment. You can
only show your mind the suffering that attachment creates. When it sees this
clearly, it will let go.
32. Meditation can quickly
become spiritualized suppression. Be careful not to use concentration to avoid
what is uncomfortable.
33. One of the deepest forms of peace we can
experience is living in integrity. You can lie to other people about who you
are, but you can’t lie to your heart.
34. Be careful not to let the
noise of your mind overpower the whispers of your heart.
35. Monks love to fart while they meditate. The
wisdom of letting go expresses itself in many forms.
36. You can't life-hack
wisdom. Do the work.
Sayadaw U Pandita passed away in 2016. While I often
resisted his style of teaching, I had the deepest respect for him. Through his
teachings, my life changed in ways I can't describe; a sentiment echoed by
thousands of others. I am forever grateful.
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