Krrish movie At times, as the

Krrish movie

At times, as the hours role on, I am sitting on my cushion desperate to start a royal rumble, turning on The Cougher and letting all this frustration vent itself in a giant macho pile-up. This is not surprising. This routine can only be described as gruelling, or it is certainly proving so for many of us, especially the new students. Ten hours seated per day. We have all become cushion sculptors. You will never see anyone plump a pillow as carefully or apply such origami-like precision to the folding of a blanket. It seems critically important because as you hit minute 90 or 110 those aches become the most significant events in the history of the universe. They expand and they swallow time. That s what I need! I caught myself thinking at one point one of those professional cushions with the Ohm embroidered on the top. Bet that s their secret, a riduculous illusion brought to an end when someone lent me theirs: Nope, worse. We have been introduced to Firm Determination : from day four we are asked that we do our utmost to stay absolutely still during the hour-long group meditations, not shifting our position at all I realise that I was trying this for every session anyway. The principle reason for this is to provide the raw material for developing equanimity, but more of that later. Ring the bell! Ring the bloody bell! Don t you realise how important this is! Just ring it! NOW! It must be nearing 5pm but the toughest thing is I have no idea exactly what time it is. The small ache in my left buttock hadn t been much trouble at first but it grew, and grew, and grew. Now it is an incessant orchestra hit of discomfort. But I am NOT going to give in. An observer could gaze around the room clueless that behind so many of the faces of blissful calm rages a struggle of operatic proportions. I chuckle at the thought of a Meditation Olympics not much to look at, but oh, if the commentator could read minds. I found myself climbing the steps to the meditation hall earlier humming the Rocky theme tune. This is the toughest challenge of my life so far, no question. I ve never run a marathon, but I imagine the similarities are strong: some of the sessions are a pleasure but those that become a test of the will always begin the moment when the thought Ok, enough now. pops up for the first time. This is when the challenge begins. I m finding the final sessions of the pre-lunch block and pre-tea block the toughest. We have moved on from Anapana to practice the Vipassana technique proper, which involves scanning the attention up and down the body observing all the subtle sensations with equanimity. I am trying. Ok, great. Thank you, I ve learned a lot from this session. Let s have a little break. If you could just end No, ignore that. I m content. I ll sit here as long as you want. Scanning the observing the sensations. So there s a large and bawdy sensation of discomfort. So what. Just another sensation arising and passion away as Goenke says. I accept No, no I don t.