A Quick Look At e Hindrancesere are pleasant and unpleasant hindrances. For example, pleasant visual hindrances such as the Buddha or the Sangha, Temples, Teachers etc. ey promote faith. But too much faith brings blind devotion unless it is balanced with wisdom.If there was wisdom in the first place one would have ignored the encouraging images.Pleasant Bodily Sensations: Just look at them until they disappear. Piti gives rise to joy; calm (passadhi) gives rise to comfort, to no pain, mental clarity inner happiness etc. (caused by samadhi).Note, observe, and do not get attached.Unpleasant Hindrances: sleepiness-restlessness-boredom-doubt-remorse (caused by lack of samadhi).Sleepiness: With good sati look at it directly without getting involved. If sati is weak look at the properties of sleepiness: dark, heavy, foggy and so on.By continuously applying your self you will be able to overcome it. Sleepiness is only a mental state.Restlessness: Return to rising and falling until your mind gets calm enough to overcome it. Check for tension in your body and mind. Tension is the mother of restlessness.B : Restlestness
and worry: Look straight into the thinking mind. at will cause it to disappear. en turn your attention to the ‘rising and falling’ for three or four times and look right into the mind again checking for thinking/restlessness. If there is restlessness turn your attention again to the ‘rising and falling’ for a few breaths and look again into the mind checking for thinking. Work like this again and again balancing the mind until thinking mind is totally overcome.Boredom: Seeing repetition and getting bored. Remind your self that what you are seeing is always new.
from - Contemplation of the Mind
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