"If you can persist, your mind will go deeper and become calmer.”
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Question from Singapore: “After sitting for a period of time, I felt numbness in my lower leg area. Should I persist and try to bear with the numbness or should I try to get up slowly and do walking meditation?”
Than Ajahn: “If you want to advance, if you want to make your mind calmer, you’ll have to continue on practicing by ignoring the numbness of the body and keep focusing on your meditation object such as your breath or your mantra.
If you can persist, your mind will go deeper and become calmer, and the numbness or the pain in your body will not bother your mind. Your mind becomes upekkhā. That’s where you want to get to. So, you shouldn’t get up if you want to move forward. If you get up or change your position, then you’ll be starting over again. You’ll never move forward. Whenever you get to this point, you’ll get stuck. You'll give up and have to restart your practice again.”
Youtube: “Dhamma in English, May 16, 2018.”
By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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