Last, it is important to remember that you don’t have to find the practice enjoyable. In fact, you don’t have to like it at all. The challenge is just to take it on for eight weeks, following the instructions in as wholehearted a way as you can manage, suspending judgment along the way. As best you can, let go of all agendas, even to get better, and see what happens, moment by moment, day by day, and week by week. Keep to the practices day by day with the intention that this discipline, this radical act of being with yourself, of taking time for yourself, will become an intimate part of your
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