Five Hindrances
November 6, 2018“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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