Why it matters: Short book with chapters meant to work as an aid to practicing meditation. Found it a bit hard to get into the text. I found Thich Naht Hahn’s 📚 Peace Is Every Step a stronger book. But I believe this would work great as support during a longer retreat. It gets much more interesting toward the end.
#Things to consider
- If your mind is all caught up and driving you crazy, you can just stop practicing altogether. Just stop practicing. Give up the whole struggle. Give yourself a break.
- Life is a whole journey of meeting your edge again and again.
- Opting for coziness, having that as your prime reason for existing, becomes a continual obstacle to taking a leap and doing something new, doing something unusual, like going as a stranger into a strange land.
- Watch out for complacency. When you begin to think that everything is just perfect and feel complacent and superior to others, watch out! You can be the worst horse. It’s okay. Sympathize with that and use it as a motivation to keep developing yourself, to find your true nature.
- The message of the dathun is to be with oneself without embarrassment or harshness.