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Practice Troubleshooting — Common Obstacles
Contents — 9 chapters
- Practice Troubleshooting – Common Obstacles
- OBSTACLE 1: "I'm Too Tired"
- OBSTACLE 2: "My Mind Won't Stop"
- OBSTACLE 3: "I Don't Feel Anything Special"
- OBSTACLE 4: "I Keep Skipping Days"
- OBSTACLE 5: "I Fall Asleep During Meditation"
- OBSTACLE 6: "Physical Pain Prevents Practice"
- OBSTACLE 7: "My Partner/Family Doesn't Support This"
- OBSTACLE 8: "I Travel for Work"
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Charaka Samhita (Ayurveda)Hindu / Ayurveda · c. 2nd c. BCE–2nd c. CEgrounds · high
Read the original · archive.org ↗PlatoClassical Greek philosophy · c. 428–348 BCEparallels · medium
“Behold! human beings living in an underground den... they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.”Read the original · gutenberg ↗— Republic, Book VII (514a–515a), trans. Benjamin Jowett
PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEparallels · medium
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
Samkhya Karika of IshvarakrishnaHindu / Samkhya · c. 4th c. CE (school c. 4th c. BCE–4th c. CE)grounds · high
“The inquiry is into the means of precluding the three sorts of pain; for pain is embarrassment: nor is the inquiry superfluous because obvious means of alleviation exist, for absolute and final relief is not thereby accomplished.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Samkhya Karika of Ishvarakrishna, verse 1 (trans. H. T. Colebrooke & H. H. Wilson)
The Dhammapada & Sutta-Nipata (SBE Vol. 10)Buddhist / Theravada (Pali) · c. 300–100 BCE; SBE 1881grounds · high
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— The Dhammapada, Ch. I (The Twin-Verses), v. 1 — trans. F. Max Müller, SBE Vol. 10
Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali (Vivekananda 1896 / Woods 1914)Hindu / Yoga (Patanjala Darsana) · c. 200 BCE–400 CE; PD translations 1896/1914grounds · high
“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”Read the original · sacred-texts ↗— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)