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. 

The Adventure of not knowing

If you don't expect to know what's going to happen, if you have no expectations, life can always feel like an adventure.

Like any adventure you need to have your supplies, otherwise it's an adventure in hell. You need to have maturity and skills and good instincts. You need the right attitudes, like patience, negotiation skills and you need compassion for yourself and the people you will meet.  And you need above all the ability to signal love, calmness, open heartedness.

To survive and thrive in adventure, above all, you need to know that place of refuge within you. There are things you can know and carry with you throughout all the places and events that you do not know.  You need to be able to access your refuge on call and know deep inside you that it is always there.