Distracted prayer is a workout — teaches us to live in the world

teaches us to be patient, it teaches us to be humble, that may be more valuable. And the beautiful thing I heard the other day, which I feel like is so cool that in our distracted prayer, we learn how to be in the world also. I'll close with this point, I don't know what to say, go and rest, but what a distracted prayer is that we are trying to sit eating, what the mind is offering us things. And we are getting involved to some extent, because if you are not getting involved to some extent, then we would not even notice the distraction. So, that involvement is trying to make a new position, a tightening of the fist. You see, what we do is we notice that formation happening, and we return to the heart using the prayer or using the prayer or using whatever truth we are using. So, we practice not falling for the mind trick. You see, the mind is trying to make us resentful of someone, the mind is trying to build a grievance, the mind is trying to make us proud, and we practice not falling for it. So, in a distracted prayer, it is like a workout session