Dear Friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Continuing with the talk by Kamala Masters titled, “The Power of Patience<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kamala shared a reflection that resonated with me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might have noticed that there’s no joy when there’s impatience in the practice. … When we can go at good pace with ourselves, just allowing things to arise that are already arising, and our only job is to notice them, there can be a lot of contentment in our practice. It’s simple. … When there’s aversion and attachment and disappointment, and self-judging and judging of others, this is a sign of impatience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n It’s not just when I’m sitting in meditation that I notice the correlation between impatience and a lack of joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suppose there’s a long train travelling through the city, blocking traffic… When impatience is there, I notice gripping the steering wheel, tightness in the shoulders, leaning forward, shallower breathing. There’s grumpiness too – why are these trains moving through the city when I<\/em> have to get somewhere! Why didn’t I take the route with the underpass? Grumble, grumble…<\/p>\n\n\n\n All that unpleasantness doesn’t make the train move any quicker!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I recall Jeanne Corrigal saying something like, “Impatience is the doorway to patience.” I like that I don’t have to reject that impatience has arisen. Instead, I can turn my mindful attention to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even just a small equanimous acknowledgement that “impatience is like this” can help me ease into what’s here. Yup, there’s a train. Yup, I might be late. But now I can open to other options than grumpiness. I can celebrate that here’s a moment I can just sit with the breathing. I can invite the muscles to relax. I can feel a contentment that in this moment, I’m fully here, watching this body+mind+heart do its thing. (I bet you just wish you were stuck in traffic now!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reflection<\/em>: See if you can notice a moment today when impatience turned into a doorway to patience. What shift in your body+mind+heart did you notice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Feel free to share your reflections or comments below, or by email<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With warm wishes, Dear Friends, Continuing with the talk by Kamala Masters titled, “The Power of Patience.” Kamala shared a reflection that resonated with me: You might have noticed that there’s no joy when there’s impatience in the practice. … When we can go at good pace with ourselves, just allowing things to arise that are already arising, and our only\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[32,19,231],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jan-2020","tag-jeanne-corrigal","tag-kamala-masters","tag-patience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grzesina.net\/meditation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Andrea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"