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Thank you. How many felt like 24 hours to you.

How many felt like it was like a much longer stretch of time than that?

Yeah, right.

One of the interesting things, there's so many moments of either pleasantness or unpleasantness

and they get intensified when

we're at retreat because even if it felt like you were sleeping through things or

lost in thought you're actually a lot more awake or present than in everyday life.

There's a power to having a formal intention to pay attention.

So you notice more of the pleasant and unpleasant moments.

And I know from the groups that many of you notice what we traditionally are called

the hindrances, I think of them as the universal challenging energies that every human

experiences on the path. And you might have noticed them today. Some of us have more of one type than another.

But if you're not familiar with them,

the first of the universal challenging energies is sometimes called wanting mind.

It's that part of us that just want something where I want a nap,

or I want food now, or the fantasies are going on and in some way we just feel

like we're trying to get somewhere else. I mean, how many of you notice that? The kind of the

fantasy, yeah, right. By the way, keep your hands up for a moment and look around. I'm going to ask you,

okay, so here's our wanting crowd. The second of the types is the averse of mind.

That's the mind that's basically saying, I don't like this.

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