The practice is to keep showing up here in the present moment, in overcoming the distraction. And distracted from the work of being in the present moment, really being here. And so, in all these situations, the mind can get distracted, caught up in those things. Maybe there's someone in their retreat that irritates you, because they're making too much noise for you. A conflict you were in the week before the retreat, or maybe something 20 years ago, that still festers. All kinds of memories come back that had not been processed well enough before. And we went into all kinds of challenges, especially on retreat, people's, their knees hurt, their backs, hurt. But we certainly that's one of the lessons we learned about how often it is that we get swept up in thought, and we come back and start again. So we constantly meeting ourselves, or meditation, we're discovering how we wander off in thought, how we get preoccupied, and and not that we're always distracted in meditation. When we sit to Unreal, meditate, we're trying to not be distracted. Ways we live that are kind of not wise ways of living, unwholesome, we say in Buddhism that they are born from a distracted mind. And that is that the ways that we live in ways that we are, that harm other people. And that is that it starts with this principle. But I want to tell you a little bit of one of the things that I find quite wonderful about it, that it's also true for in everyday meditation, but it kind of expands outwards or more intensified or fuller in on a meditation retreat. And I usually find it pretty special to be on these meditation retreats. And it was kind of special to be meditating with people for living with people for seven days. So, yesterday I finished teaching our second in person, seven day read meditation retreat. Goff, Bob The opposite of hope isn’t despair, it’s distraction.-Benefits of Non-Distraction 3:22PM Speakers: Gil Fronsdal Keywords: people meditation distracted distraction walking meditation feeling mind undistracted trauma present moment retreat walk unwholesome rumination unhealthy lake question sensations present walking Good evening, everyone and welcome. You can beat distraction and despair, but the hope-filled life lived with eyes fixed on Jesus will never happen by accident. Daily fixing our eyes involves purposeful choices, remembering that what we gaze upon, read, listen to and click on is all designed to grab you and hold you. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,” encourages Hebrews 12:2. 2 Peter 1:3 tells us, “God has given us everything we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him.” Without this renewal, it’s inevitable: our minds will always be on what the Bible calls “flesh and death.” But it also says that “The mind set on the Spirit is life and peace (Romans 8:6). God’s Word speaks to us in both practical and spiritual ways. I need the illumination of the Holy Spirit as I interact with Scripture, as only this has the power to refresh, restore and refocus my mind, will and emotions. In short, he wants to get your eyes and your mind off of Jesus.Įvery day, I need to be brought back. If you’re a follower of Jesus Christ, you have an enemy, and the shots that he takes at you are always efforts to get you to focus on all that is wrong and on your insufficiency. If I’m distracted by what’s going on in the world, in my country, in my home and in my very own mind, it’s a short trip to despair. “The opposite of hope isn’t despair, it’s distraction,” tweeted Bob Goff, and he is so right. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death.
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