Five Hindrances – Jill Shepherd: insight meditation

October 2015 full moon – Digital detox (or finding antidotes to “restlessness and worry”)

Last month I wrote about the hindrance of “sloth and torpor,” the dullness of body and mind that gets in the way of clear seeing, insight. This month, I’ve been more aware of the opposite of sloth and torpor, which shows up in the form of “restlessness and worry”, the fourth of the five hindrances. Continue reading “October 2015 full moon – Digital detox (or finding antidotes to “restlessness and worry”)”

The five hindrances I’ve been back in New Zealand for the month of September, and with the Auckland Insight group, we’ve been exploring the Five Hindrances, five particularly unhelpful states of mind that get in the way of clear seeing, of insight. They appear in the Satipatthana Sutta under the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, asContinue reading “September 2015 full moon – Maintaining Motivation (or finding antidotes to “sloth and torpor”)”