A bad night’s sleep, a bracing walk and a less than
brilliant meditation where I think I dropped off a couple of times set out the
start of the day. There was another list
in the discourse, ten things euphemistically described as enemy soldiers which
could act as hurdles to successful meditation. They were listed, spelt out in
detail and no doubt listed again but the drawn out presentation left my mind
wandering elsewhere. That distraction followed me into the afternoon and I
found myself wondering what the scanning achieved as the repetitiveness of it
left me bored. When I asked in the
question session what the point was I was told that I would see, an answer that
had been given previously to other questions in one form or another and for
which further questioning had unearthed nothing.
Despite the frustrations and distractions clinging to me through the afternoon my day was made up when I accosted the member of staff who had the gong to announce tea; they allowed me to ring it, and it’s not as easy as you might think to get a good sound out of it, and so I walked into the dining room with a big grin on my face.
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