Dan Harris

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We're talking about...

problems that emerge in meditation.

Let's talk about, this has come up a little bit, but you sit to meditate and often there are all these problems you have.

And so the Buddha, who was a compulsive list maker, made a list of five of them.

It's

not exhaustive either.

We can add to the list at any time, but these are just broad categories of issues that emerge when we try to meditate.

So the first is desire.

I don't know if I'm going to do this in the right order, but the first is desire, which is, you know, wanting.

Often it's

wanting to be in a better place in your meditation, or it could be wanting food, or it could be having some sort of other fantasy.

So that's one of the principal hindrances, desire.

The second is aversion, just like kind of the flip side of that coin, not wanting, not wanting whatever is here to be here, some pain in the knee.

I told her about how you were making inappropriate jokes during her juggling.

Um...