8/12/2023 0 Comments An undistracted mind![]() Attention is such a delicate state with all the senses finely balancing like well-trained gymnasts, that unless you are a sage in samadhi, a telephone ringing can sound rude and intrusive. Researchers say that once the focus is broken, it takes 25 minutes to return to the original task. Interestingly, a new field called ‘interruption science’ addresses this issue. Truly, a de-focused mind fuels needless torment and all that is subtle and meaningful is lost, washed away in the torrent of external meaningless details.Įach external interruption increases self-interruption by eight per cent, and where the healthy adult’s attention span was 40 minutes, it has now dwindled to 10 minutes. ![]() He simply could not grasp what he ‘read’ in the scriptures - everything was suddenly incomprehensible. Is your mind everywhere that it need not be, and is lured by so many distractions that you are restless, tired, unable to concentrate on anything? And if you’ve found yourself flipping pages of a book, your eyes looking at the sentences but not taking in a word, you would understand what the monk went through. Come back, my friend.”ĭistractions drag you down. He is not with me anymore, but everywhere that he need not be. Seeing his agitated state, his friend remarked gently, “I miss the person I knew. ![]() He worried so much and walked restlessly around the site several times a day. As work proceeded, he became a different person. I love you, my savior.A monk known for his wisdom decided to build a temple. I'm not asking for an instant cure but rather improvementĮach and every day until I am soon whole again. I ask for each day a big improvement in my condition so I can serve you with an open heart and an undistracted mind once more. I pray that you give me the strength and faith to overcome my OCD. If I surrender to His will That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Living one day at a time Enjoying one moment at a time Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it Trusting that He will make all things right God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted To understand, than be understood To love, than be loved. That where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Where there is doubt, I may bring faith That where there is despair, I may bring hope That where there are shadows, I may bring light Lord, Make me a channel of thy peace- That where there is hatred, I may bring love That where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness That where there is discord, I may bring harmony That where there is error, I may bring truth That O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love.įor it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Where there is hatred, let me sow love where there is injury, pardon where there is doubt, faith where there is despair, hope where there is darkness, light and where there is sadness, joy. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Petitions of thy servants, as may be most expedient for them granting us in this world knowledge of thy truth, and in the world to come life everlasting. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee,īecause we sailed too close to the shore.Īlmighty God, who hast given us grace at this time with one accord to make our common supplications unto thee and dost promise, that when two or three are gathered together in thy Name thou wilt grant their requests Fulfil now, O Lord, the desires and
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