So just to pause and sense where we've come from. It's last time sitting up here 24 hours ago

and you were sitting there and I don't know if it 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 as I'm gonna ask you okay so here's our wanting crowd the second of the

types is the averse of mine that's the mind that's basically saying I don't

like this okay that's the aversive mind is either angry or

annoyed about how it is judgmental about how it is in some way upset or

distressed or fearful but it's an it's a reaction of push it away don't

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