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How To Keep Your Focus When Your Practice Takes a Long Time

Your spiritual practices was never suppose to be a grim responsibility.

If it has come to that... well, it's time to take a closer look at where you are and what that is all about.

Spiritual practice isn't about the attainment of some goal. It isn't a step-by-step that you check off of a list and eventually arrive at Nirvana or Heaven or the Elysian Fields or something.

What it is, is a moment by moment awareness of how you are in relationship with yourself and everything else.

In other words, it is nothing other than this moment.

Am I open to meeting this moment on its own terms?
Am I willing to open my heart to things as they are?
Am I willing to question my assumptions?
Am I holding onto something that is creating suffering?
Is my heart softening or hardening?

These are potent questions and require us to slow down and contemplate. (Something our modern world does not value.)

This is what we will be talking about on this week's episode of OM School Live. Today at noon Eastern time at https://youtube.com/gpwalsh/streams.