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Ep. 95 – Remedies for Sloth and Torpor

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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The Power of Mindfulness in Sloth and Torpor

The great power of mindfulness here, just as with desire or anger, seeing that it's possible to be with all of these states when they arise. We can keep noting them or noticing them, and just by being mindful of them, we see that at a certain point they go away. And so mindfulness here is giveni us and deepening our insight into the impermanence of the hindrances. But if its mindfulness is not strong enoughis not strong enough to stay even moderately aware in times of sloth and torpor, the buddha gave a whole list of other remedies.

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