📖 Introduction
Let’s be honest: when we are young adults, we don’t always make decisions for the deepest, most spiritual reasons. Sometimes, we agree to attend a retreat simply because it gets us out of the house and away from our parents’ nagging. And when the schedule turns out to be rigorous, the first instinct is to pack up, go home, and just lie in bed scrolling on a phone. But what happens if you decide to push past that initial resistance and actually look inward?
In this post, a 22-year-old university student shares a highly relatable story of reluctant transformation. Arriving at the meditation center with zero expectations and a lot of annoyance, they almost quit on the first day. However, by choosing to stay, they uncovered the hidden roots of their sibling rivalry and realized how their habit of blaming others was holding them back.
Read this honest reflection to see how dedicating just one week to mind subtraction can change the entire trajectory of your adult life.
💬 Story: 🎒 “Before I Knew It, Thoughts Began to Be Discarded One by One”
By A 22-year-old University Student / Level 1
I first learned about this meditation through the recommendation of someone my mom knows. When my mom told me to go to this meditation for a week, I said I wouldn’t go at first, but then I agreed, thinking that if I was gone for a week at this meditation, I’d have to deal with my mom’s nagging less at home. I entered the Main Center and received the schedule without having looked anything up. I got annoyed at my mom, and since it wasn’t the camp I had imagined, I wanted to go home. But I spent Saturday thinking I should give it a try since I was already here.
On Sunday, I meditated all day according to the schedule, and after returning to my room, I seriously considered whether I should go back home.
“But then I figured that even if I went home, I’d have nothing else to do but lie in bed and play on my phone, so I endured it and started meditating.”
As I meditated and listened to the lectures, telling me to acknowledge and accept with my mind, I thought, ‘What does this mean?’ It didn’t work well at first, so I thought countless times a day, ‘Should I just give up and say I’m going home?’ But seeing others doing it and people saying it gradually works for them, I acknowledged things one by one, and before I knew it, my thoughts began to be discarded one by one.
Before doing this meditation, I immensely credited myself when things went well and blamed others when they went poorly. But looking back and thinking about it, I realized that if I had yielded a little more and approached them first, the other person wouldn’t have treated me that way.
“Before this meditation, I disliked my younger sibling for no reason, but thinking about it now, I harbored that mind because of my inferiority complex toward my sibling and my feeling that our parents’ love was lacking when I was young.”
I’m glad I found out about this meditation even a little bit earlier in life, and I feel thankful to my mom and her acquaintance who introduced me to this meditation during my last vacation as a university student.
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🌱 NEXT STEPS: Clear Your Mind Today
Whether you are a young adult struggling with sibling resentment, or you find yourself constantly blaming others when things go wrong, true personal growth requires looking inward. Put down the phone, discard the heavy thoughts of the past, and start your future with a clear mind.
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