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I picked up the book and will look deeper into it!

And yes I will definitely keep meditating haha! Thanks again Meshe!!!

Meshe I haven’t read beyond your post yet so the ‘living inquiries’ might elaborate, but can you clarify just a bit more?

Is the idea in practice this:
jealousy says stories like ‘I’m not good enough, I’m not smart enough, funny enough, they are way more cappable than me’ and so on. Then you just keep that thought in attention and ‘feel’ if it’s…[Read more]

Thank you all for the helpful replies!

Meshe I appreciate the reassurance that it is okay to stay with the strong feelings and not act on them. I have not been paying much attention to the passing of the feelings or thoughts only to their arising. I have also mostly been noticing the stories that arise, I wil try and extend my awareness to the…[Read more]

Small follow up to this:

With something like cold, I feel like when I’m sitting each time I come back to the breath it’s like I’m leaving this virtual river of thoughts and just experiencing the feeling. Upon reflection I realize that in that river I’m suffering but in attention to breath I don’t think I am.

With the strong feelings of jealousy…[Read more]