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Procrastination & Dharma Practice
Shoshin
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Procrastination & Dharma Practice
When it comes to Dharma practice...Are you a procrastinator ?
(Putting off until tomorrow what can or should be done today-in the hope that if you leave it long enough ...it will just fade away) 
Well what you waiting for ???
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No.
I could do more but if I could do more I would.
Strictly speaking, I see my whole waking day as my Dharma practice.
In that respect, it's not so much about procrastination but rather, living up to the task that is the problem.
The training, that is, my meditation session, let's say, sometimes, yes, it's hard to start up the engine.
But since I know it is a fundamental point in the Dharma training, I squeeze a session whenever I can, wherever I can sometime in the day.
...What "tomorrow"....?
Actually, the question you should be asking is "Am I a procrastinator?".
What are you waiting for?
"Procrastination is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline. "
For some no doubt ....Meditation practice comes to mind....
The one that never comes.....
Good thing is I always manage to do it anyway.
"Actually, the question you should be asking is "Am I a procrastinator?"."
Well are you ?
Why is it so important for you to know? Looking for validation based on what others do?
Relative to your experience , what I do or don't do makes absolutely no difference.
Relative to your experience , what I do or don't do makes absolutely no difference.
@Chaz it's of no importance whatsoever...
I recall a Buddhist in a book was asked how he got motivated to meditate.
His answer was 'by meditating'.
This is how I do it. If I am ruminating if I should meditate I just cut that short walk over to the floor and sit down.
My motivation to meditate is not thinking of meditation as some specific activity to be done at some specific place.
It is seeing that this one instant is the only real time that it is possible to ever meditate in.
I use every possible moment as an excuse to do deep breathing: queuing at the bus stop, on the bus, walking down the street, at the supermarket...
We take our meditation with us wherever we go.
Mr Cushion wants to come too . . . Stay! Good cushion.
I sooo missed your cushions, @lobster...
I'll put that one on a leash!
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Then why ask?
I sometimes wish people would think about whether typing anything is worth it.