First, during times of struggle, where for one reason or another we don’t quite know what is going on and there is a lack of ease or connection, where we have the feeling of efforting, striving, struggling, but without much success, then, at these times, it is helpful to sit back, open up the awareness, and simply ask the question, “What is happening?” Very often there’s a mind state present that we’re simply not acknowledging. Maybe it is a dullness we’re trying to fight our way through, or it might be a distracted, restless energy with a lot of thinking. Or it might be the angry mind caught
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