
Ep. 95 – Remedies for Sloth and Torpor
Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein
The Eight Precepts for Sloth and Torpor
The first strategy in what's most emphasized in this suta, is to be mindful of it. Will we take the sleepiness or the dullness of this retreating mode? We take state itself as the object of our attention. And then investigating what is this experience that i'm calling sleepiness? So we don't just don't dismiss it a note or a word, but we're bringing the power of our investigative mind to it. These are some of the conditions for it's arising. The buddha then says, contemplate what to do when it does arise. How do we work with the state when it has already arisen?"
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