Episode Details

Should you cut the negative people out of your life? Everyone on the spiritual path says yes. I think that is how you end up unable to deal with anything at all.

It took two and a half hours to get me out of bed that morning. Hard on the carer and hard on me, and for the first two of those hours I was somewhere else entirely. The point of the practice is not sitting on a cushion. It is whether you can do it in a council meeting, or when the family are nagging. Cut out everything unpleasant and you lose the ability to say you are enjoying anything either.

One thing to try: Stay in one mildly annoying conversation today instead of leaving it.

In this episode

• (0:07) Balance, and the middle way
• (2:33) Can you do it in a council meeting? With family nagging?
• (4:43) Two and a half hours to get out of bed that morning
• (7:29) What meditation and mindfulness are actually for
• (9:49) Get rid of the negative people, everybody says
• (12:06) Lose that and you cannot say you enjoy anything either

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