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5 Things Holding You Back From Achieving Your Dreams w/ Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi EP 1428

The School of Greatness

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The Problem With Restlessness

The fourth hindrance that you talked about that I've seen is restlessness. Can you talk about what is restlessness and do you ever face it yourself in this practice and in this discipline? So restlessness, there is a nice picture you can always think about. We say it's the monkey mind. Monkey mind meaning there's always one, you're jumping from one sword to another. From one branch to another. What it means is that you are maybe having contact with a lot of branches but it's very difficult to really focus and concentrate on one thing specifically. This is the pure expression of what the Buddhist teaching or also the Shaolin teachings are about.

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