Interrupted Meditation

[Karma Sonam]

I swear my kids have a radar for it.  All day they are busy doing their own thing, I sit down to meditate and in saunters one!  Tonight the 4 year old (who had already gone to bed), crept round the door 8 mins into a 10 minute meditation.

"What you doing?"

"Meditating"

"What you aiming at?"

"Huh?"

"What you aiming at?"  At this point in the conversation I wonder if this is the time to start discussing 4NT, enlightment, etc.  Decide 7:30 in the evening is not the time to broach the subject.

"I'm meditating"

"Medyating on what?"  NOW this I can answer!

"Nothing!"

"Oh OK.  I love you" and off he poddles to bed. 

Wise are the small people that live in my house   

[Blue Garuda]

Our activities with our children are also excellent practice. Compassion is perhaps more easily expressed than equanimity and patience though! LOL

[jay]

you can meditate while doing anything........next time your kid comes   try to focus, on him don't reply just smile at him  with compassion.....focus your mind more  on his/her questions ...

[lowonthetotem]

If your meditation isn't interupted at some point, you're doing it wrong.

[Spiny le Norman]

I swear my kids have a radar for it.  All day they are busy doing their own thing, I sit down to meditate and in saunters one!  Tonight the 4 year old (who had already gone to bed), crept round the door 8 mins into a 10 minute meditation.

Have you thought about locking them in their room?

Spiny

[dhammaseeker51]

Yeah,
sometimes its good to be a grandad! 

with Metta

[Wonky Badger]

Is eight minutes the magical cue? I asked my kids today "Will you all be all right now if I go to my office for a while? They all answered "Yes!" I sit down. Surely, eight minutes later the door flies open. My three-year-old daughter comes in.
She looks at me and says "Why are you sitting there instead of on the chair?"
"Because I want to."
"OK, we'll just sit here then." she says and sits down next to me.

I knew I wouldn't get any more meditating done, so I suggested we'd go back to the others and I'd have my sit later on but now I regret that I didn't continue just to see where it would go.

[Karma Sonam]

Maybe they do have some sort of inner clock...  or maybe my son thinks that if I haven't found what I'm looking for in 8 minutes I aint gonna do it!   

TBH it was his line of questioning that tickled more than anything else!

[Blue Garuda]

You are all very selfish for interrupting your children's play with your meditation!  LOL

I have a friend who had a similar problem.  She taught her very young children to meditate, and now teaches meditation at their school.  She was as surprised as any parent that her kids and the schools pupils responded very well, and many now ask to meditate.  It has also had an effect on overall discipline.

From experience (not mine) it seems that children will respond to a request and enjoy 'just sitting' or a guided meditation from as young as 3.   Ten minutes can be attained pretty easily.

Her 7 year-old son sat through a 1.5 hour class of chanting, teachings and meditation recently and he was more alert and composed that most of the adults. ;)

[thehappysnapper]

If your meditation isn't interupted at some point, you're doing it wrong.

I'm definitely doing it right then   

[dhammaseeker51]

If I'm interupted I end up with a blinding headache.
Anyone else suffer the same?

with Metta

[catmoon]

If I'm interupted I end up with a blinding headache.
Anyone else suffer the same?

with Metta

Nope. do you get really angry with the interrupter?

[dhammaseeker51]

No, there's no anger, often it's me who interupts the meditation by thinking of something I've forgotten and getting up to make a note!   

with Metta

[thehappysnapper]

If I'm interupted I end up with a blinding headache.
Anyone else suffer the same?

with Metta

If I'm interupted by a breeze block to the head   

[dhammaseeker51]