I find aggressive, ‘bang-it-out’ tasks to be more stimulating than delicate, precise tasks that require patience i.e. digging a hole > painting a wall; running > yoga; journaling > meditation. Does this speak to active > passive principle? Grasping > relinquishing? Is it a vice?
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When I started doing meditation after a while I came to think of it as a kind of pure patience, patience as an activity in itself. It also seemed that practicing patience in daily life was helpful.
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Haha yeah, this resonates with me. I feel as if my engagement with the world is either going 0 or 60 but nothing in between. Meditation strikes me as playing with the realm in between, inhabiting the slow-and-steady that I find so uncomfortable.