The Five Efforts – #3 & #4
January 25th, 2009 | Teachings |
The third effort required to maintain our steady walk down our path is cultivating a constant mindfulness of being on the path itself. This mindfulness is not a form of a negative mental obsession, but rather, a gentle reminder and awareness of the goal of our life, of faith in your journey, and of your decision to commit your energy to the process of walking the path towards inner peace. It is also the practice of mindfulness of our own inner process, being mindful both at meditation time and during daily life.
The fourth effort needed is samadhi which we have already discussed. We must be committing to systematically moving through the levels or stages of samadhi, and to using these skills of attention as the tools to discriminate between the various forms of ignorance and delusion that keep us in samsara.
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