Meditation and Puppies

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

I saw this passage from "A Path With Heart" by Jack Kornfield and

thought how appropriate it was for many of us ...especially yours

truly.

We HAVE to set aside the time for daily sadhana and tame the puppy

of the mind regardless of the messes it makes and start over and

over AND over ....

Jai Maa

Latha

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....meditation is very much like training a puppy.

You put the puppy down and say, "Stay."

Does the puppy listen?

It gets up and it runs away.

You sit the puppy back down again. "Stay."

And the puppy runs away over and over again.

Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over, and

pees in the corner or makes some other mess.

Our minds are much the same as the puppy,

only they create even bigger messes.

In training the mind, or the puppy,

we have to start over and over again.

[A Path With Heart]

[Guest guest]

yes. yelling at the puppy won't help. she needs to have clear

direction to build confidence. thank you.

 

steve

 

, "Latha Nanda" <lathananda>

wrote:

> Dear All,

> I saw this passage from "A Path With Heart" by Jack Kornfield and

> thought how appropriate it was for many of us ...especially yours

> truly.

> We HAVE to set aside the time for daily sadhana and tame the puppy

> of the mind regardless of the messes it makes and start over and

> over AND over ....

> Jai Maa

> Latha

> ===============================================

>

> ...meditation is very much like training a puppy.

> You put the puppy down and say, "Stay."

> Does the puppy listen?

> It gets up and it runs away.

> You sit the puppy back down again. "Stay."

> And the puppy runs away over and over again.

> Sometimes the puppy jumps up, runs over, and

> pees in the corner or makes some other mess.

> Our minds are much the same as the puppy,

> only they create even bigger messes.

> In training the mind, or the puppy,

> we have to start over and over again.

> [A Path With Heart]