When they were clambering all over the hut, there was nothing I could do because I wasn’t going to move and disrupt my meditation for some baboons. When I was outside, I used to watch them swing from one tree to another. The sight always amazed me because I never saw a baboon falling down. If I could have that mindfulness in my meditation, it would have been quite an achievement. In their case, it was in their genes. I suddenly realized that this is what I needed to do: shift the meditation from my conscious mind, where it was an effort, to the depths of my subconscious and unconscious states,
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