TAKING THE ONE SEAT by author John Travis
John M. Travis teaches Buddha's insights in order to relieve suffering in daily life. Take a seat, cultivate mindfulness and compassion, and trust in your growing capacity to live with a free heart. The book is based on a number of John's Dharma talks. Open the book; open "all the doors and windows", and be in the present moment at home with yourself where ever you are. Jack Kornfield presents the forward.
EXCERPT FROM THIS BOOK
Calming the Muddy Water -- So this is the great distraction from your own body, your own mind, and that space that I get to fill for a short time before you go back to your own garbage. I would like to start with a poem:
First Day
Like a great blazing fire, body came to rest on the cushions,
fired up to stay awake and present,
only to find bitter-sweet drifting off,
old stories holding court,
while body cried out, “Pay attention to me, I’m the most important.”
Everybody, everybody, demanding attention.
Nobody getting first place today.
Maybe enlightenment can wait.
Where are my car keys?
During this first day [at the retreat] there is a lot of drifting off. This is the nature of the mind...
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