It has been a month since my first day to an amazing journey, to attend to mind and to be liberated through vipassana.
I keep practicing after the course as I made a great determination on the-11th-day discourse because I have learned a great deal in 10 days and felt the teachers practice what they preach. However, meditation is not as productive as it was in the center. My mind is even wilder even though I can easily make it to sit one hour, but if I cannot control the mind, sitting doesn't mean much. Well, I know it is a process...
Last weekend, a girlfriend asked, "your legs look tanner, is that because you went trekking with shorts?" I am tanner, true. But I wore long pants when go trekking. I said so. But this question made me think "if not because of trekking, then how did I get tanned?" This morning practice, I realized that I usually tucked my pants@ great determination hours. In the afternoons, the sunshine, though not torching, still made people wanna find a shadow....
Lesson learned: the answer may not be found in the question, which might mislead the direction to the cause!
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