Yoga Nine Vipassana
Gratitude is a source of joy, and joy is one of the essential ingredients for spiritual awakening:
The Seven Factors of Awakening:
- Mindfulness - Observing perspective on ones experience (seeing, hearing, touch, emotional feeling, thinking process, etc.)
- Investigation - An attitude of curiosity toward observing experience
- Energy - Enthusiasm
- Joy
- Calm - Peace, tranquility
- Concentration - Sustained focus, gradually training the mind to wander less and less
- Equanimity - Acceptance, attitude of allowing toward any experience (seeing, hearing, feeling, thinking process, etc), letting them pass through awareness without resistance
