T 3.8.3 Maintain undistracted alertness through unwavering determination
3.8.3 Maintain undistracted alertness through unwavering determination
The key to all meditative practices from this point onwards is maintaining undistracted alertness. Only through undistracted alertness can a yogically trained mind understand and experience the true nature of this. The path of undistractedness is the way of all enlightened people.
The key to maintaining undistracted alertness is to develop unwavering determination. Developing unwavering determination to maintain undistracted alertness is more important, at this stage, than success or failure. Above all, what will help you most is unwavering determination to keep practising until success comes, naturally and spontaneously.
In this and following paragraphs, negatives are used in a way that has been recognised as being psychologically unhelpful in programming the personality. Readers should choose whether to substitute alternatives for “undistracted” and “unwavering” in these declarations, and in the text.
My own experience has been that initially rewording (“rapt” and “steadfast”) was helpful, but now there is a preference for the original wording.