500 образов для медитации на шагах пути к просветлению, занятие 13

[Speaker 1]
Item 13, avoid being too busy and overstimulated. So it's very, you know, it's called a yoga teacher disease. You're so busy teaching yoga that you never do yoga.

You see what I mean? So, especially DCI people, me, we have to be careful that we don't spend our whole life teaching people how to meditate and never meditating, okay? Like that, okay?

So be careful with that trap because it's very common for a lot of us in this room, okay? We all know that. So let's help each other avoid this trap.

You know, if we can do yoga together or we can do meditation together. We have a nice thing when we drive to Diamond Mountain. We always rent a yoga room halfway and we all do yoga together.

So help each other, okay? Do your practice, right? And then overstimulation is mainly your phone, you know?

Don't be a slave to your phone. It's supposed to serve you. You're not supposed to serve it, okay?

It takes me a lot of effort not to pull it out in the toilet. You know, I'm like, you stay in my pocket. I'm busy.

He's like, yeah, but you could be checking me. And I'm like, let me have a peaceful poop, okay? Don't let me check the internet in here.

Give me a break, okay? So don't forget the phone works for you and you don't work for the phone, okay? And it takes a lot of self-control not to get nervous.

Nervously check your phone when you have nothing to do, you know? So try to control this urge to pull it out and check it every time you have two minutes, you know? Try to experience the thing called life or world or friends, okay?

Like give it a little time. I know myself, personally, when I come back from a DCI tour, I'm often tired and I'm often disoriented. I don't know which country I'm in.

And it's very common for me that I will do too much computer, especially at night, you know? So I think it's a good idea when your mind is not steady, when you're tired, don't go into the computer. You'll end up watching movies or you'll end up doing stupid things and it'll be two o'clock in the morning and then you'll be unhappy for two days.

You see what I mean? So when you're tired, be careful about your internet use, okay? In the evening.

I have friends, Will Duncan, they turn off their internet at 8.30, I think. And he told me and I said, boy, that's wonderful and I can't do it, okay? So, but be careful of computer use at night, okay?

I bought, I read science fiction at night to calm down the reactor and I realized I should buy the paper books so I don't have this electro stuff in my brain, you know? So, it's not very expensive. I bought like five science fiction books in paper and I use paper before I go to bed, you know?

When I read in the morning science fiction, I use the computer. Okay, obviously, anyway, I don't read that much.