Message #41793

[guest587]

Thanks Steve,

I finally watched the videos.

I really like how he says most important is practicing awareness. Realizing we have a choice, and understanding how much of our actions have become compulsory and how much are by choice.

It makes me think about samskaras. And I look at my family and my self and see we have many compulsory patterns/behaviors. I think I sometimes get bored if I am not satisfying them because I don't always have the intelligence of keeping my self busy in new ways. I don't always enjoy deviating from my patterns, even if I desperately want to be freed from them.

This makes me wonder about our animal nature as biological creatures, and samskaras.