Exercise - Ten Minute Timer
If one acquires a 10 minute timer,
I really like the old fashioned sand timers and one dedicated one to observing
their thoughts for 10 minutes and being very vigilant to not allow oneself to
get identified and carried off with any of the thoughts.
This exercise done constantly and regularly
strengthens our will and our concentration and sharpens our self-observation.
Gradually we should also increase
the time from 10 to 15 and then to 20 and later to 30 minutes.
Benefits
We really need a sharp sense of
self-observation to see the thoughts that cause our egos to react. Without a
sharpened sense of self-observation we are too slow in the work of dissolving the
ego, because we simply don’t catch the initial thoughts of the ego that make it
to react. We miss its protest, its concepts and its beliefs. Without
concentration we can not meditate on the ego and apply ourselves to observe the
ego. So concentration and self-observation go hand in hand and this exercise
really helps to develop these two things.
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