Stolen from 'Early Morning Buddhist Inspirations'

[sabrinamari]

HOW TO WORK WITH ADDICTIONS

"Maitri is settling down with the situation without looking for alternatives.

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche talks about three stages in this process. The first is the warmth or maitri, the second is dropping discursive thinking and opening and the third is communicating. When we drop the discursive thinking and open, or communicate, what that basically means is that we we contact the moment fully."


Pema Chodron

Comments

[rio-luna.livejournal.com]

what do you mean bu discursive thinking? is that the constant monolog running in my head??

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's how I understand it. Discursive thinking is that endless mind chatter that seems to move us along, and over which we appear to have little control. It's the stuff you pay attention to and then release over and over again when you are doing mindfulness meditation.

It's the stuff you learn to "unhook" from through the spiritual/psychological technology of meditation.