Good Advice From a A Teacher
The last weeks of the year are stressful for me. The kids are home for a week and, since I work from home, I pretty much spend every waking moment in their presence.
It has been a solid week now.
I was talking to a friend, someone I consider a meditation teacher, and confided: “The kids are driving me so crazy right now, I feel like a total fraud running a Take Back Your Mind program“.
His response, was something that I think all meditators need to keep in mind: “It’s been over a week now of being pretty much constantly in the presence of two six year olds? You aren’t yelling or freaking out, you are making a few sardonic posts on facebooks and talking to a friend. That is pretty much ideal.”
“You are aware of your mindstate and managing it in distress. More than that, you aren’t playing the spiritual teacher game of hiding feelings and pretending to be zen.”
Good spiritual friends, even ones you cannot mention by name on social media, are important to have at all levels.
