I can spend a day walking or hiking by myself, and I actually enjoy that. No phone, no music, no people, just me.
So I don’t know if I found myself annoying during meditation or if I found meditation annoying, but I recall that staying still for so long felt like a waste of time and energy, and didn’t bring me anything positive for the rest of my day.
Fair enough 😉
Performing an activity where your sense organs are highly active and your mind 'distracted' with your natural surroundings is different though.
The reality of how you and your mind works reveals itself much more strongly when you are in silence with yourself, having reduced the activity of the sense organs to a minimum.
Once you master that kinda silence, the awareness it brings can be applied to any activity in life.
Maybe I will have the opportunity to try it again someday. 😁
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