In his talk, Already Free, Adyashanti highlights the way we fixate through an amusing example.
It’s like you got mesmerised by the movement of one of your hands in front of your face. And now you can’t stop following it wherever it goes.
So you go to the doctor and say, “Doc, I’m confined to my hand! It’s hard to see anything else and I’m tired of having to follow it around.”
I walked into the library at Gaia House, 1 week into a 3-week meditation retreat.
The library was my favourite place, holding thousands of books and looking out across the garden. I’d spent many happy hours here, curled up on a chair next to the 30-foot windows.
This time, I was pissed off. I was here for my weekly teacher interview. I’d struggled to maintain mindfulness throughout the day, trying this technique and that, and getting frustrated with the other jobs I had to do.