Learning To Meditate Off The Cushion

 

It’s amazing when you enter a clear and radiant state on the meditation cushion. But can you keep it as you put the cushion away? How about during difficult times?

In 2019, I participated in Clear Sky’s Karma Yoga program (Three-Month Intensive). During the program, the founding teachers Qapel and Sensei explained one good measure of how well your meditation practice is going: how well you can experience non-clinging awareness while doing a seemingly insignificant task.

If we are training to sit and focus on the breath, then surely doing it while cleaning a sink should be easy.

But it isn’t.

Because as soon as we are not “meditating” anymore, we allow our ego to take over again.

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