Five Hindrances

“Parasites Of The Mind”

• Sensual desire
• Ill will
• Dullness and drowsiness
• Restlessness and remorse
• Doubt

A word I like for “dullness and drowsiness” is lassitude.

What to do?

• Meditate on impurity
• Contemplate the reality of the body and all of it’s parts
• Guard the sense doors
• Moderation in eating
• Noble friendship
• Suitable conversation
• Factors of absorption
• Mindfulness of spiritual faculties
• Mindfulness of the factors of enlightenment
• Brahmaviharas
• Changing posture
• Noticing the perception light
• Fresh air
• Recalling death
• Seeing the suffering of impermanence
• Cultivating sympathetic joy
• Contemplating the spiritual journey
• Contemplating the greatness of the Buddha
• Contemplating the greatness of the Dhamma
• Reflecting on: birty, decay, disease, death, suffering in the worlds of misery, suffering in the past, future, and present
• Follow the advice to Moggallana when pursuing Arahatship
• Investigation of reality, energy and rapture

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