Good morning,
Good afternoon,
Good evening.
Slightly late,
Microphone problems.
So I was asked a question yesterday about patience.
And we approach it the same as we approach everything.
What's it made up of?
Thoughts?
Something like that.
Or we should hurry up,
Or we should.
.
.
Drive faster or whatever.
Whatever the situation is,
So we have thoughts.
And bodily sensations.
That's all anything is.
So we treat it all the same.
That's the thought.
To identify the thought.
And then,
See,
We go direct.
Don't try to practice patience,
Particularly.
Is look at what's going on.
And you experience the bodily contraction.
And you experience the bodily contraction.
Of the burning chest of the tight shoulders or whatever.
And that's what we do.
Let's just simplify it even more if we can.
It's no good just trying to get rid of the impatience.
We have to see for what it is,
What's generating it.
It's the belief thoughts.
That's it.
It's the belief thoughts.
It's because you're indulging in the thoughts,
That's what happens.
It's like the fire analogy.
If you don't put your finger in the fire,
Or your hand in the fire,
You don't get burned.
But the moment we put our hand in the fire,
We get burned.
So what if a thought comes along and you don't indulge it?
Just passes through,
It's just a momentary event.
And nobody can do this all the time.
But more and more you start to see that you're just creating it,
Just creating the old Lee.
Or the suffering.
It's literally made up.
I'm not saying there's not time to do things quickly and to actually be in a rush.
I'm not talking about that.
And as you all know now,
I'm not talking about functional thinking.
It's got nothing to do with it.
If you don't pick up the thought.
What's the problem?
It's just action.
Or in Zen they just call it clean action or pure action.
And all that happens is.
.
.
As we practice,
We stop buying into the.
And to the shore.
That's being presented to us.
Bit,
Drop by drop,
Bit by bit,
We stop buying into it.
So when we're sitting here,
It's an opportunity to see just what keeps being presented.
And we get involved.
So there's contraction when we're involved,
And the belief force is contraction and expansion.
That's what's happening.
And when we're not involved,
I was just listening,
The senses,
The body.
There's an opportunity for.
Expansion just to very gradual.
And you can't force it.
That's contraction.
So,
Let's sit quietly.
Part of the contraction.
Is having thoughts about thoughts.
There I go again.
There is your contraction.
Relax into the body.
You're in the fire.
Are watching the fire.
To very different experiences.
Go and try to put out the fire.
What's happening?
Just checking that you're.
.
.
Relaxed.
You're not efforting.
It's not about effort.
Hearing is effortless.
Them as feeling and seeing.
Are you playing with the fire?
What's going on.
Lose your weight,
Okay?
Just a good deep breath.
No attachment.
And feel the breath.
Build the body.
Feel the end of the out-breath.
Where is the attention?
Okay.
Bring this session to an end.
I was gonna say relax,
But.
.
.
You should have been relaxed already yes
