Thursday, April 20, 2023

Maintaining interest in evening practice

I watch too much TV.  

It's hard to maintain a practice when there is so much pleasant dullness that we can engage in. 

I'm going to start with just getting curious about the quality of this dullness I experience in the evening. I watch TV because I don't want to be with unpleasant dullness, boredom. But in doing that I deprive myself of the gift of boredom.  Non-conceptual clarity.  That place where inspiration can be born. 

Dullness is the pathway to pure perception. And that is the pathway to inspiration, surprise, adventure.