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Five Ways to be Less Distracted | Shaila Catherine
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One of the most common and insidious complaints of meditators is distraction, which can be a frustrating and difficult obstacle. Even the Buddha himself acknowledged this common problem and laid out some detailed practices for dealing with it.
In this episode, Shaila Catherine outlines the Buddha’s five strategies to help us tackle distractions, which can be applied to our meditation practice as well as other aspects of our lives.
Catherine is a dharma teacher whose latest book is called Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind. She is also the founder and principal teacher at Insight Meditation South Bay and has 40 years of practice, including nine years, cumulatively, of silent retreat. Her first TPH appearance, which we called How to Focus, aired in May 2021.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Buddha’s struggles with distraction
- Shaila’s attempts to make the teachings of the Buddha accessible to contemporary minds
- The importance of getting to know your own thought patterns
- The counterintuitive strategy of “avoid it, ignore it, forget it”
- Replacing seduction with mindfulness
- Developing a flexibility of mind
- Why we’re vulnerable to our own tendencies when we’re not mindful
Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/shaila-catherine-467
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Manage episode 332899831 series 172966
One of the most common and insidious complaints of meditators is distraction, which can be a frustrating and difficult obstacle. Even the Buddha himself acknowledged this common problem and laid out some detailed practices for dealing with it.
In this episode, Shaila Catherine outlines the Buddha’s five strategies to help us tackle distractions, which can be applied to our meditation practice as well as other aspects of our lives.
Catherine is a dharma teacher whose latest book is called Beyond Distraction: Five Practical Ways to Focus the Mind. She is also the founder and principal teacher at Insight Meditation South Bay and has 40 years of practice, including nine years, cumulatively, of silent retreat. Her first TPH appearance, which we called How to Focus, aired in May 2021.
In this episode we talk about:
- The Buddha’s struggles with distraction
- Shaila’s attempts to make the teachings of the Buddha accessible to contemporary minds
- The importance of getting to know your own thought patterns
- The counterintuitive strategy of “avoid it, ignore it, forget it”
- Replacing seduction with mindfulness
- Developing a flexibility of mind
- Why we’re vulnerable to our own tendencies when we’re not mindful
Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/shaila-catherine-467
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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