Journey to Joy: Cultivating Positive Virtues : หน้า 314/376

Journey to Joy 314 - The second group aims at focusing our mind on positive things or virtues that refresh our mind (Assignments #2, 6, 7 and 9). Good virtues include loving kindness towards all beings a smiling and cheerful manner, positive speech, the ability to see good virtues in others and ourselves, rejoicing in others' and our own virtues as well as the recollection of our virtues each day. By accustoming our mind to these virtues, our minds will be clear and illuminated and we won't be easily irritated. Subsequently, we will be able to still our mind easily when we meditate. The third group focuses on keeping a record of meditation experiences (Assignment #8). This record keeping helps us track the cause of a satisfying or unsatisfying experience during meditation. You should keep a meditation diary