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Hi Ward,

When you have a distraction go ahead and label it, but keep your labels general. An example is a bird sound. You label it as sound. Not bird sound, nor Robin sound. Anything past labeling is one step down the rabbit hole.

Yes, there is a classification. It is called Distractions. Generally speaking, they are all the same. Unfortunately, they are also all different. Think about a box of animal crackers.

The trick is too quickly recognize that your mind has gone to visit the fairies and to gently and compassionately come back to your object of meditation…[Read more]

Hi Bernadette,

When I searched for what Enlightenment is I found many definitions. Most of them described what the enlightened state felt like, not what it is.
Then I found this one, “Enlightenment is the Art of living compassionately with mindful, habits, beliefs, experiences and expectations”. You might also say this is living in the present…[Read more]

One of the great things about Buddhism is it’s openness to science. Some time ago I read and heard at a lecture by Hayward Fox that three 15 minute sits is far better than one forty five.

I have searched and […]

Basically, the ribbon is a distraction.

John,

Something else to consider:

Noticing is just noticing. The idea is to note where your mind has gone and return to your OOM (Object Of Meditation). It doesn’t matter all that much where your mind has […]