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Normalize Discomfort
Meditation, Zen, Buddhism, Mindfulness Robert Althouse Meditation, Zen, Buddhism, Mindfulness Robert Althouse

Normalize Discomfort

So when things arise in your practice and your meditation that disturb you, you may easily get discouraged. This isn't what you signed on for. So I want to suggest that you normalize discomfort; that you proceed by allowing and acknowledging that suffering is part of your life and to walk on a spiritual path means to engage and transform this suffering, but not to avoid it.

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