Daily Reflection Sit

Virya is the energy, enthusiasm and diligence that supports an ongoing commitment to practice. We want to consider how rest can bring that energy into balance. Rest as foundational in our practice.

How do we balance urgency, not squandering our energy with restfulness.

Patience is grown on the back of all of the times we catch ourselves in the act of being impatient!!! Be on the lookout for the SIGNS of impatience! SEE them! FEEL them. SOOTHE them and the impatient self. This is how we grow patience…

Because we constantly lean forward into the next moment.

Mindfulness practice entrains us to look at ourselves, at what the self is saying and doing and thinking. Doing so allows us to celebrate the skillful, the kind, generous, the beautiful, and helps us to keep the unwholesome, the unkind in check. This is a loving act.

Discernment and non-harm should be contextually considered.

Strengthening resolve strengthens all of the other paramis. Resolve is felt in the heart, as a deep commitment, to what matters to us. We have to renew our resolve time and again.