why, why now!

I have been listening to a series of talks by Subuti, and very good they are to. They are around a book called "know your mind" The talks are very in depth and although at first I didn't grasp the whole meaning I did pick up two things which I used last week in my meditation. The first is to be clear what you are meditating about and have an attraction or at least an interest in the object of your practice. The breath in the mindfulness of breathing, and compassion for or well-being towards people, including yourself, in the Metta bhavana. The second is to keep reminding yourself of what you are doing. Not just coming back to the breath say but to remind yourself that you are focusing on the breath out of attraction to/interest in the breath. I found this extremely helpful last week in the Metta Bhavana and have started to use it today with the mindfulness of breathing. I let you know how its going as the week goes on!

Metta