How can we keep our mind clear between meditation sessions?
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So if we have say meditate two meditation sessions so in between will we also have a clear mind? It is like if I clean a room I clean my room today and I clean my room tomorrow. Now in between will the room stay clean? Well if I clean it yesterday definitely it will stay cleaner than what it would have if I had not cleaned it.
But just by the process of nature some dirt will come in. So like that for in our case if we consider our mind to be like a room then meditation cleans it. But again some contamination comes in.
It can come in from outside or it can come in from inside from the past memories of whatever might be there. So it’s not that just doing meditation will permanently clean the mind but it is a powerful and essential part of the process for cleaning the mind. And over a period of time when we start cleaning what happens is if we make a rule everyday I’m going to clean my house, clean my room and not only do we make the habit of cleaning the room but then overall we also become more cleanliness conscious.
Oh you know if I put this food here it makes it dirty. So better let me not put this food here. So then at other times also we avoid the things which will make the room unclean.
Like that once we start cleaning the mind through the process of meditation in the intermediate period also whenever some potential sources of contamination start coming we will become aware. This will unnecessarily create some impression. Let me avoid this.
Let me avoid this. You know our memory does not come with a delete button. If I download some file on our computer and decide I don’t want it I will delete it.
But our memory is not like that. If we take some impression inside we can’t press a delete button and erase it. So that’s why we have to become more discerning.
So by the practice of meditation we are cleaning at that time and we are also creating a cleanliness consciousness by which we will avoid the things that make our consciousness unclean at other times also. Does it address your question? Any other question?