Tip: Try to keep your eyes open. Closing your eyes makes it easier to become slouched, wander off and fall asleep.
I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post.
I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of your post.
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This is unfortunate because it tends to make practice feel difficult, as our minds naturally wander, and then come back, etc. People connect their perceived success at this with their experience of practice, and quit or go off on very strange and contrived tangents. The notion of success/failure is typically irrelevant in many traditional meditation practices.