Taming Habit Energy...
Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John shares how to free ourselves from deep-rooted habitual patterns. Watch your thoughts; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become stories. Watch your stories; they become excuses. Watch your excuses; they become relapses. Watch your relapses; they become dis-eases. Watch your dis-eases; they become vicious cycles. Watch your vicious cycles; they become your wheel of life. We meditate to uproot what the Buddhist teachings call samskaras . These are the mental impressions and recollections that have been psychologically imprinted in our minds by early childhood trauma. We also meditate to loosen what the Buddha called the seven anusayas , which are obsessions or underlying habitual tendencies. If we really want to break deep-rooted habits, every one of us needs to become aware of the obsessions of sensual passion, resistance, views, uncertainty, conceit, ignorance, and the passion of becoming. Every time we habitually react, the pa...