For example: I’m interested in the benefits of meditation, but have never managed to keep up the practice. I was granted an audience with a senior monk, who told me to meditate for no more than 30 seconds. If I managed to do that every morning, I could move up to a whole minute. Then two minutes. And so on. At no point was I allowed to get to any point where it was a struggle, or I’d risk losing the momentum.
