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The five Hindrances
1. Sensory desire: the particular type of wanting that seeks for happiness through the five senses of sight, sound, smell, taste and physical feeling.
2. Ill-will: all kinds of thought related to wanting to reject; feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness.
3. Sloth-and-torpor: heaviness of body and dullness of mind which drag one down into disabling inertia and thick depression.
4. Restlessness-and-worry: the inability to calm the mind.
5. Doubt: lack of conviction or trust.
The Insight Meditation tradition teaches the RAIN formula for investigating the hindrances:
* R: Recognize it.
* A: Accept it.
* I: Investigate it, be curious. What is it like?
* N: Non-identification. This is just a passing process that comes and goes, not who we are.
In meditation one develops an understanding of the Five Hindrances -- how, when one of them is present, you investigate it, you understand it, you accept its presence and you learn how to deal with it. Sometimes you can just tell it to go away and...
2. Ill-will: all kinds of thought related to wanting to reject; feelings of hostility, resentment, hatred and bitterness.
3. Sloth-and-torpor: heaviness of body and dullness of mind which drag one down into disabling inertia and thick depression.
4. Restlessness-and-worry: the inability to calm the mind.
5. Doubt: lack of conviction or trust.
The Insight Meditation tradition teaches the RAIN formula for investigating the hindrances:
* R: Recognize it.
* A: Accept it.
* I: Investigate it, be curious. What is it like?
* N: Non-identification. This is just a passing process that comes and goes, not who we are.
In meditation one develops an understanding of the Five Hindrances -- how, when one of them is present, you investigate it, you understand it, you accept its presence and you learn how to deal with it. Sometimes you can just tell it to go away and...
